adding custom header line

bad76

Hi all,
I've to redirect to a new page and I need to add some line to http header.

I'm asking if this is possible to do in php.

Example:
header("Location: mydotcom.php");
header("Content-Length: 500");

Naturally this don't works, because the "content-length" information is sents to current page, not to mydotcom.php.

Any idea or info to help me?

lilleman

If you use the "Location" header, the user will be redirected. There is no need to send the header "Content-Length" in this case.

Or maybe I misunderstood what you are trying to achieve...?

bad76

The second you say! 😉

In the example I wrote, I would to force the "Content-Length" for mydotcom.php to be exactly 500.

There is a way to do this in php?

But don't fix your mind on Content-Length. It's just an example. I need to add a custom line...

bubblenut

Can you not send details of the header in the url and then add the header in the page?

lilleman

Why don't you just send you custom line in mydotcom.php?

<?php

#- mydotcom.php
header('Content-Length: 500');

?>

bad76

Originally posted by bubblenut and lilleman
Can you add the header in the page?

mydotcom.php is not in my domain (and is not in php...).

I have to do without modify it.

tekky

try sending the content-length header FIRST, then the location header....

bad76

Bad luck.
Send it before or after don't change anything...

lilleman

Well, if it's not your file then you can't do it with a header. Maybe you can use fopen() and fread() ?

<?php

// the adress
$url = 'mydotcom.php';

// open it
$fp = fopen($url, 'r');

// read
$data = fread($fp, 500);

// close
fclose($fp);

// result
echo $data;

?>

bad76

...mmh...
I'm gettin a well 200 OK code, but not
any html code... 🙁

lilleman

Weird... Are you sure that there are any content in mydotcom.php?

bad76

Yes. Now I get
all the html content. But because fread() is on a server and mydotcom.php in another one... the relative links are all brokens!!!

D#mn... :mad:

Ok, nothing to do, I think.

However the "custom" line is
Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($user.":".$pass);

Anyone know how I can send a login to a "www-Authenticate Basic "?

Already tried with [url]http://user:mpass@url,[/url] works only for the first page...

tekky

use eregi_replace() to rewrite the href's 😉

lots of examples on that on www.php.net and on this board...

bad76

Very nice try tekky,
I do it with a simple strpos... but don't works. The authorized ip it's that of the server, so, when the user click, its access is unhautorized.

I think the fopen/fread way is not the rigth way...

However thanks.