5 second redirection delay?

[Ahmet]

Do you think there exist a technical reason for this delay?
Is it just for coova image to be seen?

Graham Beneke wrote:
> Ahmet wrote:
>> Hi,
>> At /etc/chilli/www/coova.html there is a 5 second delay before
>> redirecting to uam page (<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="*5*;
>> URL=/prelogin">).
>> Is there a purpose for this delay? Can I remove it safely (<meta
>> http-equiv="refresh" content="*0*; URL=/prelogin">)?
>>
>
> I changed it down to 2 secs on mine.
>
> I agree - 5 seconds it quite long. Particularly when some of my sites
> have such high latency that that externally hosted UAM login page
> takes a further 5-10 seconds to load.
>