What happens is that the gateways include your page instead of posting to your page.
For example if you visit a site that uses worldpay as a payment service provider you will see their banner on the thank you page after
payment is made. In such cases the header functions will not work because it's too late to send them.
hope this is a better explaination.
best regards raditha
Chris wrote:
I'm not quite following you here. I understand that no solution is always the correct one. Everything has exceptions...
If the page you want to redirect from has PHP, just dont' use the <meta http-equiv=...>, set the header with PHP instead. As far as I can see that should always be possible.
-----Original Message----- From: Raditha Dissanayake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP REDIRECT
Hi Chris and Chris and et al.
It's not often that i disagree with the other chris but one occaision where meta refresh turns out to be the only solution is when working with some payment gateways where instead of doing a simple old post to your return page they include it inside their own thank you page so the headers will not work.
Lame? well some of the best known gateways are doing it.
Chris wrote:
things theHeh, I was on my way to bed and didn't think about that. (And my 'answer' was a bit abrupt as well)
Ah well, booboo's happen. I've always been an advocater of doing
*right way*, and in this case, the Refresh header would seem tobe the right
way.
JUST SAY NO to meta http-equiv tags! :)
Chris (the other one)
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