note 50341 deleted from function.header by bjori

Note Submitter: php at richardneill dot org ---- Warning about Query strings in header: Location. Normally, when using ampersands in a query string, '&' is wrong, and '&amp;' is right. [see http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp ] Eg: This is the correct way to write a link: <a href="http://example.com/index.php?foo=bar&amp;baz=wombat">link</a> BUT, when writing a redirect, the exact reverse seems to be true. The following is wrong (It doesn't work in either Mozilla or Konqueror - in both cases, the value of baz is not set): $redirect_location = 'http://example.com/index.php?foo=bar&amp;baz=wombat'; header("Location: $redirect_location"); In this case, it seems as though '&' is necessary. I'm fairly sure of this, through experiment, but I don't know why it should be true. It seems a bit perverse!