Re: Problem using META tag refresh for page re-directs

yes I know what your saying. trans-sid will not work when the url is absolute ie. <form method=post action='http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php'> or <a href='http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php'>index</a> or header("Location: http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php"); header redirects *require* absolute url's so your going to have to add the phpsessid yourself, ie. <?php $SID = "PHPSESSID=$PHPSESSID"; header("Location: http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php?$SID"); ?> rember "" not '' seems people get them mixed up alot. '' doesnt parse the string. I use this method to transer valid sessions accros multiple domain names on the same box. sessions will not follow absolte urls and cookies are only vaild on a per-domain name basis. use sessions and your can force a session across multiple domain names. ie. our secure server is on a differnet domain name then the regular sites. we do this to get a cheaper deal on our certificate, all our sites use one domain name for secure info. I would recomment agains php.net's sujestion os using SID ie. echo "<a href='http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php?'". SID ."'>index</a>"; SID is only set if the a cookie is NOT set. oi. thank god $PHPSESSID is allways set :) another note too though is try and limit the amount of header re-redirects you use, search engines will not index pages that follow header redirects. spam thing or something. -- Chris Lee Mediawaveonline.com ph. 250.377.1095 ph. 250.376.2690 fx. 250.554.1120 lee@mediawaveonline.com ""Johnson, Kirk"" <kjohnson@zootweb.com> wrote in message news:01A4B59FD1EBD311838100A0C98BE0D9AD576B@chef.zootweb.com... > Thanks, Chris. This touches on another problem. Have you tried this with > session cookies disabled in your browser? Can you pass the session ID using > the header function? I can't seem to, but I *can* pass it using SID appended > to the URL in the META tag. This is one reason I wanted to stay with the > META refresh method, if possible, so the site still works for people with > cookies disabled. > > Thanks, again, I will play with this. > > Kirk > > ----------------- > Chris Lee replied: > > if you have output buffering on in php.ini > > output_bufffering = on > > cobine this with > > <?php > header("Location: > http://$SERVER_NAME/index.php"); > exit(); > ?> > > and youve got a great cobination, zero html will be sent to the browser, > just the header, the browser will refresh for you. try it, works better then > meta tags. > > > ""Johnson, Kirk"" <kjohnson@zootweb.com> wrote in message > news:01A4B59FD1EBD311838100A0C98BE0D9AD5769@chef.zootweb.com... > > I have been using the code below to do my page redirects for a year and a > > half with good results. Recently, some users have reported to me that the > > actual code is being partially displayed to the screen, and the re-direct > is > > not occurring. It is as if the server stops serving the page before it is > > complete. Sometimes the problem can be corrected by the user just doing a > > manual refresh in their browser. Is anyone else that uses META tag > > re-directs having this problem? Anyone know what the solution might be? > > > > > > echo("<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" > CONTENT=\"$delay;url=$url\">< > > /HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR=#ffffff>$message</BODY></HTML>"); > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >