note 64565 added to function.header

PHP does not appear to work with Apache's ability to interpret 'location' URLs starting with a '/' as "internal redirects" -- redirects that are handled internally by Apache and not sent back as 302 Redirect responses to the client. This can be useful for hiding the real location of a file but having Apache still handling the download of the file. For example, the header: Location: /hidden-dir/secret-file.jpg If this is generated from a regular CGI script, Apache will open the file in the hidden-dir directory and send that back to the client without sending back an updated URL. With PHP, the client receives the 302 Redirect response, including the url /hidden-dir/secret-file.jpg and has to fetch the content under that URL (and usually changes the displayed URL as well, thus un-hiding it.) I assume the reason that this doesn't work with PHP is that PHP automatically generates a 302 Redirect header when it sees the Location header even though that might not be what you want. It would be nice if there was a way to tell PHP to *not* generate the 302 Redirect header but *just* the Location header. ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 65.211.58.5 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/64565 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64565 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/64565 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php