Also, supply an absolute URL when using header redirects.
On Jan 5, 2008 3:44 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 9:06 AM, peeyush gulati <peeyushgulati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greetings on New Year :)
>
> To you, as well!
>
> > We have a script, say layer.php, which uses HTTP_REQUEST package to
> > authenticate a user to an existing application (viz., wordpress,
> > mediawiki etc.)
> >
> > I would like help on the following two fronts:
> >
> > 1. How do I return the cookies, headers etc. from the layer (which are
> > being sent from the application) to the browser?
> > 2. How do I redirect browser from the layer.php to a page of the
> application.
> >
> >
> > I was thinking that if I could find a way to send the headers and
> > cookies to the browser, I could also send a 302 status code, along
> > with the cookies, to redirect the user to a page of the app.
>
> When you create a cookie in your script, it is automatically sent
> via the HTTP server to the client (browser). The same occurs with
> $_SESSION information, as the PHPSESSID cookie is sent to the browser
> to track the session name.
>
> With regard to redirection, there are a lot of ways to do that,
> but the easiest is as follows:
>
> <?
> header("Location: somefile.php");
> exit;
> ?>
>
> Just be sure to always exit; after using the header("Location:
> xxx"); to stop the current script from running, unless you have
> explicit reasons not to do so.
>
>
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