Posted by Adam Plocher on 07/13/06 16:57

P-Rage, I'm not sure if this will help, but what if you put an exit();
after the header()? I've gotten in a habit of doing that due to some
weird issues I've found in the past (not sure if it was a buggy version
of PHP or IE).

Also, maybe try a couple variations in the header(). If you haven't
tried this already, try using the full URL (
"http://blah.com/page2.php?name={$name}" ) or maybe try prefixing it
with a ./ ( "./page2.php?name={$name}" ).

Hope that helps.


P-Rage wrote:
> 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 $name == 'valid' in order to
> > avoid unexpected behavior.)
> >
> > HTH,
> > --
> > Benjamin D. Esham
> > bdesham@gmail.com | AIM: bdesham128 | Jabber: same as e-mail
> > "...English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just
> > borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages
> > down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets
> > for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll
>
> Thanks for your reply! Yes that was a typo ($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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