Multiple Headers

legal-medium

I want to run a script that posts multiple headers to another server, however HTTP does not allow multiple headers to be sent, how do I do this? Is there another approch I should use?

Thanks A million in advance

for($x=0;$x<=100;$x++)
HEADER ("Location: http://www.domainname.org/recieve.php?name=$x");

Weedpacket

Originally posted by legal-medium
I want to run a script that posts multiple headers to another server, however HTTP does not allow multiple headers to be sent,

Yes it does. However:

for($x=0;$x<=100;$x++)
HEADER ("Location: http://www.domainname.org/recieve.php?name=$x");

What on earth are you trying to achieve by this? You're trying to redirect the server to a hundred and one different pages simultaneously?!?!?!

legal-medium

That does not answer my question.

Thanks anyways

tekky

Originally posted by legal-medium
That does not answer my question.

Thanks anyways

then specifiy your question, Weedpacket said YES it does allow multiple headers..... however your current script seems rather odd.... to the point of being pointless....

legal-medium

Read the original post again, I was very clear what I am trying to do

post multiple HEADER(Location: "http://www.somedomain.com") through a loop.

I am trying to post variables to a server to activate a script.

Why I want to do this is not relevant to the question. If you cannot help please don't waste my time as well as yours.

superwormy

Dude legal-medium, watch what you frickin say, its VERY obvious you have NO CLUE what you're talking about ( no offense intended, but really... you don't... ) and you're being really really rude!

So first off, header() cannot be used to POST data. Period. End of story. So start using the right functions. :-)

Secondly, the HTTP header Location: is used to redirect a page, and what you're current code does is redirect the user-agent to 100 different pages at once... which... obviously... doesn't work and doesn't make any sense at all to do.

Thirdly, is is VERY VERY NOT CLEAR AT ALL WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO!

As Weedpacket ALREADY pointed out, HTTP DOES ALLOW MULTIPLE HTTP HEADERS TO BE SENT.

SOOOO... FIX YOUR FRICKIN' ATTITUDE PROBLEM, FIX YOUR QUESTION SO THAT IT MAKES SENSE, AND STOP BEING MEAN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO HELP YOU! :-)

... Sorry, but you really deserved that.

Now, if you do actually want to POST data to 100 different pages... you'll need to use some diff. functions:

www.php.net/fsockopen
www.php.net/fwrite
www.php.net/fread
www.php.net/fclose

You should read up on HTTP protocal too, as you'll need to build an HTTP POST request.

You migth also look for the post_to_host() or send_to_host() user-written functions that are working their way around the net... go Google search for 'em.

legal-medium

It is posting to the same page, not 100 different pages!!!!!!!!! look again before you put your foot in your mouth. The only thing that changes is a variable that is being posted along with the redirect (name=$x).

for($x=0;$x<=100;$x++)
HEADER ("Location: http://www.domainname.org/recieve.php?name=$x");

If you are smart enough you can gather by looking at the other replies I am trying to post to a script that is called (recieve.php) from an array that is generated by a database.

I have been doing this for a while and I have a clue about web apps!!!!!!!

This used to be a kick ass forum when I used it 2 years ago, I can see that that has changed.

superwormy

HOLY CRAP!!! LISTEN TO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS TOLD YOU!!!

header() DOES NOT POST TO PAGES!!! IT CANNOT! IT DOES NOT! ALL IT DOES IS SEND AN HTTP HEADER TO THE USER-AGENT!!!

THE Location: HTTP HEADER TELLS THE USER-AGENT TO 'GO TO' WHATEVER URL YOU PUT AFTER THE Location: !!!

SO ESSENTIALLY, YOU'RE RIGHT NOW TELLING THE USER-AGENT ( Internet Explorer / Netscape / wGet / Opera / Mozilla ) TO GO VISIT 100 DIFFERENT ( OR IN YOUR WORDS, 100 OF THE SAME PAGES ONLY WITH DIFFERENT VARIABLES PASSED THROUGH THE URL, WHICH IS, ESENTIALLY, 100 DIFFERENT PAGES SINCE EACH ONE IS AN INDIVIDUAL REQUEST... ) PAGES SIMULTANOUSLY.

YOU ARE NOT POSTING TO ONE PAGE. YOU ARE NOT POSTING DATA AT ALL.

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REQUEST TO A REMOTE SCRIPT OR POST DATA TO A REMOTE SCRIPT, YOU NEED TO EITHER USE AN HTML FORM, OR FAKE A FORM POST WITH fsockopen(), fwrite() and fclose()

legal-medium

This is the answer I was looking for

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REQUEST TO A REMOTE SCRIPT OR POST DATA TO A REMOTE SCRIPT, YOU NEED TO EITHER USE AN HTML FORM, OR FAKE A FORM POST WITH fsockopen(), fwrite() and fclose()

That was real hard huh. So I assume that I need to find an example for this.

BTW you can post variables with header(Location: "www.somedomain.com?variable=$foo)

However you can only post this header once or you get an error.

Gotta be kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

superwormy

OK, so first off, in my FIRST POST I gave you the links to all those functions oyou'd need.

Secondly, header() DOESN'T FRICKING POST DATA! PERIOD! YOU'RE WRONG!!! DEAD WRONG! IT SENDS HTTP HEADER DATA TO THE USER-AGENT! AN HTTP POST IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERNET THING ALTOGETHER!!!

Variables that are passed through the query string are not POSTed, they are through the query string, the GET method.

And if you read the PHP manual about header(), you'd know that multiple calls of the same HTTP header overwrite each other if you have the 'replace' parameter set, otherwise it adds multipel headers of the same type... and it really doesn't make much sense to have multiple Location: header calls... but... ah I digress...

legal-medium

Oh so I misstated the obvious POST with GET, when I say post I was referring to send to: not the literal POST/GET method in HTTP

tekky

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your current code if its calling the SAME page (itself) it will endless loop and die

2nd
you can ONLY post ONE header LOCATION

3rd, you CAN send GET data via LOCATION headers

4th, you do have an attitude

5th, learn to value our free time as much as we do, since we are volunteering it to help you.

6th your original intentions as to a question are very unclear, just face the facts, suck it up and move on

7th if you want to do this, you will need to call the SAME page, ONE time per page, and increment a GET variable that you are sending to that page so first iteration will send something ilke

www.mypage.com?i=1&whateveryouneed=whateveryouwant
next call will change it to www.mypage.com?i=2&whateveryouneed=whateveryouwant

make sense?