Re: HTTP header question.

From: Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:58:05 +0000
Subject: Re: HTTP header question.
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"Ben Bleything" <bleythib@ucs.orst.edu> wrote in message news:000001c11891$447271c0$0201a8c0@allegro... > Hey all, > > I want to craft a header such that it seems to the page that data has > been POST'ed to it... Here's the situation: I'm writing a login page to > my application, and if they log in incorrectly, I want the page to > redisplay, but I want it to throw out an error message. I'm currently > doing it by > > header("Location: login.php?failure=true"); > > but I'd like to make it transparent. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben You cannot send ANY text or html tag (even a space ) before usin header function. If you have to get something displayed. I suggest to use then : echo "<HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"4; URL=login.php?failure=true\"></HEAD>"; Regards, Jacques

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