Re: [PHP] Problems with headers in redirect

[John Steele]

Hi Richy,

  Try sending the content header before the location header:

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
header("Location: http://yourhost.com/yourfile.jpg";);

HTH,
  John

>Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this one...
>
>I'm doing redirects to various types of file (Flash, Office, DWF etc) and 
>have found a problem with IE5.
>
>I pass the script a document ID, and it retrieves the document record from 
>a database, which stores the location of the file on the web server, and 
>redirects the browser to the document.
>
>What happens is that the browser gets redirected, but doesn't get the 
>content-type header, and subsequently can't display the document.
>
>Until yesterday I was using javascript redirection, which worked fine. 
>However for other reasons (ie that didn't work with IE 5.5 or IE6) I had to 
>change to using the header("Location: ") way.
>
>Only work around I can see is to do the redirection based on browser type 
>(i.e. one way for IE5, the other for IE5.5/IE6) but thats messy.
>
>Any other ideas???
>
>Richy

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