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AtomicChip

AtomicChip

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Pages:

page1.php
page2.php

page1.php has a form (action=page2.php method=post).
page2.php executes some stuff and then calls header('page1.php');

The header() method works fine, but the url in the address bar is showing page2.php, not page1.php (as executed in the header() call).

How do I force the URL in the address bar to display the current pages' URL instead of the referring one?

Hope that makes sense...

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I suspect that your header() invokation is not working find.

If you had used

header("Location: page1.php");

in your code and it worked correctly, the browser would have immediately disconnected from the current script and initiated a new connection to the script pointed to in the header. The URL of the browser will show the destination of the "Location" header.


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The redirection works fine...

Just not the address writing... Still not sure why...

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i use this function sometimes. It allows me to embed the tag in the middle of the HTML code, rather than forcing me to do the redirection before the <head> tag:

Code: 
function redirect($url,$str) {      //redirects the page to $url and displays $str for 1 second.
	if (isset($str)) { 
		echo $str; //something to display while redirecting
		sleep(1);
	} ?>
	<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=<? echo $url; ?>"></head> <?
}

 
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Huh, that's weird...

I'm developing on a Windows box, but my live server is Linux... Seems that the problem only occurs on the Windows (IIS) machine, but Apache handles it no problem.

Case closed.

Thanks :)

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I'm not suprised. Mi[&cent;]ro$oft's software does some strange stuff with HTTP headers, both at the server and browser ends.


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You can run Apache within a windows environment. That may be a better course of action, unless you need IIS for something specific.

 
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I'm primarily a C#/ASP.NET developer (hence, the need for IIS), working with PHP and admin'ing a *nix box for fun. As it's just a development box, I'm not too concerned with the way IIS handles headers. As long as it works on my server, that's pretty much all that matters to me =D

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