Posted by P-Rage on 07/13/06 15:52

Benjamin Esham wrote:
> P-Rage wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Technically, the location you pass should be an absolute URL; try replacing
> your code with something more like
>
> header('Location: http://www.example.com/page2.php?name=' . $name);
>
> That may or may not make your page work; I'm not sure.
>
> (By the way, the statement $name='valid' in your if statement probably
> doesn't do what you want it to do: it assigns the value 'valid' to $name,
> instead of checking to see whether the two are equivalent. If that's an
> actual excerpt from your code, change it to $name == 'valid' in order to
> avoid unexpected behavior.)
>
> HTH,
> --
> Benjamin D. Esham
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> "...English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just
> borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
> down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
> for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll

Thanks for your reply! Yes that was a typo ($name == 'valid'). I am
still getting these loops occasionally after using an explicit
http-location header... any other ideas? Thanks again!

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