Reloading Recent Posts page - Fuel Economy, Hypermiling, EcoModding News and Forum

jeff88 · 07-23-2013, 02:42 AM

I often use my phone's internet app to log on to EM. I have a bookmark to the recent posts page and sometimes I even leave the page open to view it later.

My issue is that my phone likes to refresh pages if I close the browser and then reopen it a while later. But when it refreshes, the EM website gives me an error message, because I have to physically press the recent posts link. The same thing happens when I open the bookmark for the page. This is not only a wee-bit annoying, but I am often in bad signal areas (like my break room at work) and one less page to load would be helpful.

Is there a way to make it so when I refresh the recent posts page it updates the most current recent posts without an error message page?

Thanks!

hamsterpower · 07-23-2013, 07:48 AM

There are two different URLs that relate to the recent posts page. There is the search string from the link at the top of the page and there is the results of that search that will be in the address bar once you go to that page.

The first looks like

Code:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/search.php?do=getdaily&days=2

The second looks like

Code:

http://ecomodder.com/forum/search.php?searchid=xxxxxxxx

where the "x" are numbers that will change every time.

If you bookmark the results it will error out. If you bookmark the link it will work as expected.

MetroMPG · 07-23-2013, 09:15 AM

The problem is if he keeps the results page open and his browser auto-refreshes it, the search will eventually time out and he'll get the error.

But bookmarking the fist link you posted is still the best approach.

hamsterpower · 07-23-2013, 01:12 PM

That is true, but that is an issue with his phone and I have no way of addressing that problem. Doing as I advised fixes the underlying issue of extra page loads and data usage, therefor he would not need to keep the page open.

jeff88 · 07-23-2013, 02:12 PM

Thanks hamsterpower!!!

I changed the bookmark to the URL you supplied and that seems to work perfectly! I don't know if it will work with the auto-refresh, but that shouldn't be much of a problem now that the bookmark works properly.