Re: Redircetion and Browser-Type

that's why i usually use exit(); after header('Location: http://www.php.net/'); - eris -----Original Message----- From: Jesper Juhl <juhl@eisenstein.dk> To: php-general@lists.php.net <php-general@lists.php.net> Date: Friday, July 28, 2000 10:48 PM Subject: 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 > > > >-- >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 >