Re: PHP-using HTTP Guru ?

Hi Just use something like die(header('Location: abc.php')); and php will exit after sending the header. If you don't exit, the client can probably ignore the header and see the rest of the page. Sagi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Price" <pricee@hhbrown.com> > > 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