Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/14/06 02:58

P-Rage wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>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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>>Jerry Stuckle
>>JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>jstucklex@attglobal.net
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>
>
> Adam,
>
> I have `exit();` at the end, and that's working, since it doesn't allow
> an echo statement after that. I will try the `./` approach, but I find
> it odd that IE is the only browser affected by whatever is causing this
> issue.
>
> Jerry,
>
> There's nothing in page2.php that brings anything back to page1.php. In
> fact, I don't even reach page2.php (tested with a `echo "Page 2.";
> exit();` line at the very top of page2.php). Perhaps the answer lies
> with previous headers? The following was include()'ed at the top of the
> page. It seems pretty standard based on the docs I have read.
>
> [code]
> header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
> header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
> header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
> header("Pragma: no-cache");
> [/code]
>
> Thanks for the replies you guys...
>

Hmmm, that could be what's causing IE to not like it. When I'm going to
redirect I don't send *anything* before the Location: header.


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