RE: [PHP] Redircetion and Browser-Type

> The first one will because it redirects before anything is even sent to the > browser so it's browser non-dependant. The second might be browser specific > I don't know. > Jason That's how it's supposed to be, but reality is a bit different. If I place the following script on my Apache 1.3.12 server running PHP4.0.0 and then get it via http/1.1 then I get both the location header /and/ the document body. <?php header('Location: http://www.php.net/'); echo 'You should not see this as you have been redirected'; ?> Here's a dump of my telnet session : $ telnet jesper.staff.groundcontrol.dk 80 Trying 213.237.12.238... Connected to www.groundcontrol.dk. Escape character is '^]'. GET /locationTest.php HTTP/1.1 Host: jesper.staff.groundcontrol.dk HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:42:27 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.0 mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.0 Location: http://www.php.net/ Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html 33 You should not see this as you have been redirected 0 Connection closed by foreign host. So as you see, you depend upon the fact that the browser honors the Location header (and any compliant browser should), but in fact it is possible to ignore it. Jesper Juhl juhl@eisenstein.dk