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[trancemission]

I am trying to Redirect my browser if something is true. I am using the following code but I still get the error.

The page I am accessing is ops.php, the first 3 lines look like:

<?
include "security.inc";
?>

There is no lines of code or HTML above that.

The first lines of security.inc:

<?
if (!$portaluser) {
header("Location: http://localhost/security/login_form.php");
exit;
} else {
}
?>
There is no lines of code or HTML above that.

!$portaluser is a cookie variable and works fine. I want it to redirect if this doesn't exist. I have tried ommiting the exit; line. It seems to work fine on a win32 box running apache but not Linux (RH 6.2) running linux, I do not believe the config to be different but any ideas are very much appreciated as this is really stopping my prject

Many Thanx
Marcus

[Anon]

Hi,

First, some (hopefully) positive critisism.
I dont se any code to verify that $portaluser contains a shared 'secret' between the user and your portal. So if I give $portaluser some value, I'm logged in ?

I.e: http://www.yourportal.com/security/startPage.php?portaluser=1

would give me access ?

Then your problem..
I would check the if the variable $portaluser indeed is set, and contains what you expect. Try the isset() function..

I.e

if ( ! isset($portaluser) )
{
header("Location: http...");
}
else
{
echo "Congrats. you are logged in";
}

Good luck

[trancemission]

Thats fine, This is the first check that I perform, the next check checks your sessionID against the one in the DB and sees if they match.

Thanx for pointing that out though