title: Do meta refresh tags "break" PHP sessions?
body: <p>I am using session variables to store user display settings while their session is active.</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I choose to display 5 items on the page with session variables then there is no problem. I can manually (f5) refresh the page and still see 5 items on the page. However, upon implementing the following meta tag to auto-refresh, every time the page refreshes it switches to the default value of 3.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I expect maybe this meta refresh is causing a new session to be created and therefore the user setting is simply out of the picture.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have experience with this type of issue - is this the case and is there a known way to implement a page refresh and still maintain session?</p>