the onunload feature of the body tag may work for you in this case.

At 16:38 12/10/01 +0530, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have got an acute problem. I want to submit a frame when auto refresh
>occurs. Worst part is that I have used the meta (refresh) tag for using
>the frame and i don't want to disturb the meta character and still want
>the form to get submitted.
>
>Is any javascript way to deal the same.
>
>Thanks and Regds,
>Ashutosh Shrivastava
>Time is that funny thing that prevents everything from happening at the
>same time!