Re: fsockopen to spit out the HTTP's Location...

See the reply to the Chris Shiflett's reply... "Michal Migurski" <mike@saturn5.com> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.52.0403230902100.15116@atari... > >In plain english, can't use the header("Location: ****"), so have to use > >the fsockopen() instead. Just that header() is not allowed, don't ask me > >why. Just couldn't get the browser perform the HTTP LOCATION event. > >--snip-- > >$host = "192.168.0.2"; > >$port = 443; > >$url_str = "ssl://www.whatever.com?str1=true&str2=false&str3=true"; > > > >$fp = fsockopen("ssl://".$host, $port, $errno, $errstr, $timeout = 30); > >--snip-- > > //send out to the browser..... > > fputs($fp, "Location: ".$url_str."\r\n"); > > That won't get sent to the browser, it will get sent to 192.168.0.2, which > is (I guess) some machine behind your router. You can't initiate a TCP > connection -- what fsockopen does -- with the client's machine. > > I'll ask even though you said not to - Why doesn't header() work? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: > sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html