| Re: buffering to allow headers in code? [message #170172 is a reply to message #170170] |
Thu, 14 October 2010 20:48   |
Michael Fesser
Messages: 215
Registered: September 2010
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.oO(MikeB)
> Michael Fesser wrote:
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>> At least partly I have to agree. If this is what your instructor told
>> you:
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>> header("Location: index.php");
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>> then he might be the wrong one for this job. The above violates the HTTP
>> RFC and can be considered a bug. It also violates conventions for good
>> URLs, because you should never link or redirect to index.* files.
>> Instead you use the directory - that's what these index files are for.
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> Do you mind explaining this? If I understand you, if my site is
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> http://localhost/recipes/index.php
The index.php should never appear in any links or redirection URLs. The
better and recommended URL for the above would be
http://localhost/recipes/
> I should code:
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> header("location: /") ?
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> or
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> header("location: localhost/recipes/") ?
Almost. But this still violates the HTTP spec, which _requires_ an
absolute URL for the Location header. So this would be correct:
header('Location: http://localhost/recipes/');
Of course this will be bound to your own local machine, which is not
good. To make it more flexible, replace the 'localhost' part with
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']. There are even more examples in the PHP manual.
Just see the page for the header() function for more details.
Micha
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