Header trouble

[snaack]

Hi!

I'm having difficulties sending headers.. There's a case in my script in which I want to sent a 404 Not Found header.

I tried this code:

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");

And this code:

header("Status: 404 Not Found");

Both in IE5.5 and Opera 7 I don't recieve a 404 error. Nothing else happens though..

Am I misunderstanding the purpose of sending this header and what is supposed to happen or is there something wrong?

I want to sent a 404 header to a client to shield the administrator part of a system I've built. I feel it's more secure than displaying an "acces denied" message to a (potential) hacker.

Opinions??

Thnx in advance 😃

[tsinka]

Hi,

what happens if you try:

header("Location: HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
header("Connection: close");

[snaack]

thnx for your reply!

I did not trust my browser so I downloaded this great tool to monitor all HTTP headers, HTTP Explorer.

I discovered

Header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');

actually sends the correct header to the client.