> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 July 2002 21:17
[...]
>
> It's a good idea to get in the habit of doing:
>
> header("Location: xxx");
> exit;
>
> There's no point in sending any more data after the Location:
> header anyway,
I can't let this go unchallenged -- what happens if you're sending this to a
browser which *doesn't* honour the "Location: " header, but *is* capable of
displaying any attached page content? The poor user will be left with a
completely blank screen, and no hint of why. In fact, the HTTP/1.1 spec
(RFC 2616: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html) even says:
> Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response
> SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the
> new URI(s).
So at the very least you should do something like this:
header("Location: xxx");
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Moved to xxx</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>This page has moved to <a href="xxx">xxx</a>.
</BODY>
</HTML>
<?php
exit;
Cheers!
Mike
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