Re: Extrange behavior with Header('Location')

--- Jordi Canals <jcanals@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen an strange thing with the funcion > Header("Location: $url") and will tell in short words. > > I have a method in a class wich composes an URL from the > database, this method sets some extra params in the url. In > this case, the function returns: > > /myaccount/?opt=sys&amp;id=3 > > Note the &amp; in the URL > > Well, with this code, the url works perfect and the &amp; is > going as expected redirecting to /myaccount/?opt=sys&id=3 > > echo '<a href="'. $url .'">Test URL</a>'; There is no redirection taking place here. HTML entities are interpreted by the browser. In fact, this is their whole purpose - for representing characters properly in HTML. > But when triying > > header("Location: $url"); > > What I get is address is literally the &amp; string and not the > & char. Yes, because when you use header(), you're setting a raw HTTP header. This is not to be confused with HTML, which is included in the content of an HTTP response. > header('Location: '. html_entity_decode($url)); > > I would like to know if there is a better way to do it This should work fine. However, I would prefer to keep the data in its original format and only use htmlentities() when I plan to display it within HTML, leaving it unaltered otherwise. Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming December 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/