Redirecting after readfile()

[barcsdad]

I've got this code to force-download a file. However, after successfully saving the file, it doesn't want to do the redirect. Could someone please clue me in as to why? Thanks.

header("Cache-control: private");
header("Content-type: text/plain");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$statfile."");
readfile($statfile);
header("Location: '../../view_stats.php'");

[statrat]

from php.net/header

Note: HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. You can usually use $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a relative one yourself:

[Mordecai]

Originally posted by statrat
Note: HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute...

Actually, HTTP/1.1 doesn't require an absolute URI, some browsers do, usually older ones. It is always good practice to use absolute URIs, however.

The problem I see is that you are using single quotes inside. The location header doesn't require any quotes: header("Location: URL");