Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/13/06 17:54

P-Rage wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering what could possibly cause Internet Explorer 6 to loop a
> page usging a header(Location:) statement.
>
> For example, a page called 'page1.php':
>
> if((isset($_POST['var'])) && ($name='valid')){
>
> // insert some data into MySQL.
>
> $location = 'page2.php?name='.$name;
> header(sprintf("Location: %s",$location));
> exit();
> }
>
> FireFox redirects the user to page2.php as planned. But IE6 loops back
> to page1.php (refreshes twice on most occasions). Any ideas? Thanks in
> advance for any help and advice.
>

What does page2.php do? Is it possible it's doing some checking and
redirecting the user back to page1.php?

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