On Wed, November 1, 2006 10:09 am, Edward Kay wrote: > $redirect_url = 'http://www.example.com/path/to/' . $redirect_page; > header('Location:'.$redirect_url); > exit(); Rant #43 I will never understand why one would waste bandwidth and bounce the server/user/browser/user/browser/server back and for with a header("Location: $x"); when require $x; will work just as well... I just don't get it. You chew up HTTP connections and bandwidth and end back up in the exact same spot as if you just include() the file, if your application is well-constructed. Plus, cookies (and hence cookie-based sessions) and Location: headers tend not to play well with each other, unless you strew your code with sesssion_write_close() before each header("Location: ")... This starts to get real counter-intuitive and difficult to track, at least for my tired old brain. :-) PS In either case, be careful *NOT* to have a wide-open variable in the destination/include path. Avoid this scenario: http://example.com/page=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd leading to: <?php require $page; ?> [lawyer voice-over] (data left un-urlencoded for demo purposes) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
