----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Zareef Ahmed" <consultancy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Aaron Koning" <aaronkoning@xxxxxxxxx>; "PHP-General"
<php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: simple-ish question but something i never knew
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:45, Zareef Ahmed wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Cummings" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Aaron Koning" <aaronkoning@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "PHP-General" <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:07 AM
> > Subject: Re: simple-ish question but something i never knew
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 03:01, Aaron Koning wrote:
> > > > My experience was with the Location keyword, it might work better
with
> > the
> > > > Redirect keyword in the header function. I stopped using header and
> > Location
> > > > after a few problems and <meta> has never failed for me. MHO.
> > >
> >
> > > What kind of problems did you have? I've never experience a problem
with
> > > the location header, but would be interested to know of any gotchas
that
> > > I've just been fortunate enough to miss over the years.
> >
> > I do not think that using meta is better than header but header has one
> > problem ( but in my view it is feature) normally.
> > for eaxample:
> >
> > <?php
> > session_start();
> >
> > $_SESSION['somevar']="anything";
> > header("location:url");
> > ?>
>
> Shouldn't be a problem if you change it to:
>
> <?php
> session_start();
>
> $_SESSION['somevar']="anything";
> session_write_close();
>
> header("location:url");
>
> ?>
Yes indeed, but normally people do not know about this.
Alternatively we can reverse the script, I mean, we can write the header
line as first line of script.
Zareef Ahmed
>
> I generally wrap redirection in a function, that way any shutdown
> routines can be performed transparently -- and also the URL can be
> reworked from relative to absolute.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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