title: IE doesn't evaluate meta-refresh anymore after pressing F5
body: <p>Ridiculous simple HTML-file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
                        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=./test.html"&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Hello World&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I open the file with <em>any</em> browser, the browsers behave well and reload the page every 5 seconds.</p>
  
  <p>But when I refresh the page manually between two refreshes (<kbd>F5</kbd>), the <strong>IE (V 8.0.6001.18702)</strong> doesn't evaluate the <code>meta</code> tag anymore and the page gets no longer refreshed. <a href="http://www.opera.com/" rel="nofollow">Opera</a>, <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/" rel="nofollow">FF</a> and <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/" rel="nofollow">Safari</a> still work as expected and refresh every 5 seconds.</p>
  
  <p>Has anybody else experienced such a problem? How (apart of using Javascript, of course) could this issue be solved?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>Edit 1:</strong><br>
  Verified this behavior also on IE6, so I guess it's a general IE problem. Any hints how to overcome this?</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p><strong>Edit 2:</strong><br>
  To keep that topic going:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>is that a known problem or would it
  be worth to file a bug ticket
  somewhere (where?)?     </li>
  <li>Could someone
  verify that behavior with IE7 and/or
  IE9?</li>
  </ul>