Re: PHP-using HTTP Guru ?

yeah.. all header() does is add a header to the http response.. when you add "Location: " it tells the application to goto a new location. I do believe that you can configure you webserver to catch the location header and automatically redirect to the new site, but im not sure... are you trying to do someting like? if(validuser) { print "hello valid user"; } else { header("Location: http://myhost.com/baduser.php"); } if thats what you want to do.. then it should work... but there are much better ways of handling this.. - Brad --- Erik Price <pricee@hhbrown.com> wrote: > > I asked a question about this last week on php-general, but didn't get a > response, and was hoping that someone who knows the PHP engine at a > deeper level could help me: > > I am new to the concepts of HTTP, and how user agents communicate with > servers via this protocol. I am wondering if all user-agents (such as > Perl scripts/spiders, not necessarily just browsers) observe the PHP > function 'header("Location: ")' function. I did some reading about HTTP > this weekend, and learned that when PHP calls the 'header()' function, > it's essentially giving the user agent instructions as to where to go > next. In other words, it is not that the web server is actually > refusing to serve the page to the user agent, but rather that the user > agent is told to stop reading the page that is served and start reading > something else. > > Is this correct? I am trying to keep unwanteds from accessing parts of > my site using this idea, but if someone could code their way around this > with Perl or something, I don't want to use it. > > Thank you, > Erik > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com