On Thursday 31 July 2003 06:39, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> I've got a site with a login authentication script in a file called
> login.php. Every page has a simple session check on top of it, as well
> as line that captures the name of the file the user is trying to view.
> The idea is that if the user tries to go straight to an inside page
> without logging in, they get sent to the login page (index.php) with the
Don't you mean they get sent to login.php?
> variable $file marking the page they wanted to view. When they log in,
> the $file variable is sent to login.php and (if $file is set) login.php
> returns them to the page they were trying to view using a simple header
> redirect: header("Location: $file");
The Location: header requires a correctly formed URL, ie http://...
> Problem: instead of sending them to the page they wanted to view, they
> get sent to this URL: login.php?file=/dir/file_name.php?v=123
>
> What's going on here? Why doesn't "Location: $file" return the contents
> of $file?
What do you mean? Have you checked that $file contains what you expect it to
contain? Putting $file inside double-quotes doesn't magically transform its
contents.
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