A fopen/redirect question

Anon

Greetings,

According to the standard docs, fopen does not process redirects. I see this for myself in some code I'm working on.

I came up with a (sorta) workaround of using $fp = fopen("http://someserver.com/file/I/want/to/redirect/to.php");
fpassthru($fp);
exit;

This works fine and dandy for somewhat simple stuff but it totally hoses the display when I try to fpassthru more complicated (files with includes and what not).

My question is: has anyone come up with any good, versatile workarounds for the fopen / redirect problem?

Thanks!
--Desmond

Anon

I neglected to state my problem as clear as I wanted to:

Basically, fpassthru is returning back php source. It happens when I fpassthru a php file which itself uses fpassthru to output another file.

I tried using readfile, virtual,and fread with no luck...

--Desmond

Anon

Well if you knew the URL of the page you want to redirect to:

$url = "http://www.foo.com";
header("Location: $url");
echo "please wait while you are redirected to <a href=\"$url\">$url</a>" //Sometimes netscape get's upset if there isn't any page data.

You can also use:

$url = "http://www.foo.com";
header("Refresh: 0; url=$url");
echo "please wait while you are redirected to <a href=\"$url\">$url</a>" //Sometimes netscape get's upset if there isn't any page data.

Anon

Cool. I'll give that a try.

I found a workaround for it between the time I posted the original question and now, but I'd like for the redirects to work (which the workaround does not fix).

Thanks,
--Desmond

Joe Webster wrote:

Well if you knew the URL of the page you want to redirect to:

$url = "http://www.foo.com";
header("Location: $url");
echo "please wait while you are redirected to <a href=\"$url\">$url</a>" //Sometimes netscape get's upset if there isn't any page data.

You can also use:

$url = "http://www.foo.com";
header("Refresh: 0; url=$url");
echo "please wait while you are redirected to <a href=\"$url\">$url</a>" //Sometimes netscape get's upset if there isn't any page data.