> Don't you mean they get sent to login.php?
Nope -- index.php contians just the form elements for the user to type in
user id and password, then it calls login.php which contains just the
script.
> The Location: header requires a correctly formed URL, ie http://...
It works fine having Location: main.php and $file contains a relative path,
like "file_name.php?v1=123" and yes, I have checked that.
Any other ideas?
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] session header issue
> 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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