Re: Using Header() to pass information...

On Tue, April 25, 2006 2:12 am, Richard Lynch wrote: I left out some steps... > 1. Writes a bunch of data to hard drive in $_SESSION > Or to your db, which ends up on your hard drive anyway, most likely. > Okay, this bit could get real complicated and picuyane, but let's just > agree that it uses up not insignificant resources, no matter what your > session back-end. > 2. Sends a response to the browser telling it to go look somewhere > else. > 3. The browser then has to request a new URL. > 4. That then hits your HTTP server again, using up another HTTP > connection. 4a. Initialize the session again 4b. Read the session data > 5. The web server then reads... mypage.php and executes it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm