You might want to check whether or not your header output is getting buffered. My suggestion is a flush() after the fist call. I'm not an expert on this, it's just an idea.
HTH -- Ivo Fokkema PHP & MySQL programmer Leiden University Medical Centre Netherlands "James M. Luedke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello all: > I am having a hard time with a small piece of code. I was wondering > if someone may be able to explain why the following code will not work... I > have been scratching my head for a few hours now and I am stumped. > > <?php > > header("Location: http://someplace.com"); > > if( ! headers_sent()) > header("Location: http://somplaceelse.com"); > > ?> > > So I would expect this piece of code to direct me to somplace.com. > However it does not, and I always end up at somplaceelse.com. > > I have done a tcpdump to assist with debugging here is the output below. > From the look of it the first header is getting ignored all toghether. Is > there some way to force changes I made to the headers, that will make > headers_sent return TRUE? > > Thanks, > > -James > > --- > GET /tracking/test.php HTTP/1.1 > Host: dev.www.someplace.com > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) > Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 > Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q= 0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 > Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 > Keep-Alive: 300 > Connection: keep-alive > Cookie: toolkitAccess=1 > > HTTP/1.1 302 Found > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:04:55 GMT > Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.6d PHP/4.3.1 > mod_perl/1.27 > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.1 > Location: http://someplaceelse.com > Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: text/html > --- > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php