Header not working in IE

deltaforce229

im using the header function to set a redirect. it works fine in mozilla firefox however in IE it causes a "page cannot be displayed" error.

header("Location: xfire:status?text=test");

Installer

Try using an absolute URI, as rfc 2616 says.

bradgrafelman

Perhaps IE is refusing to let Windows handle the "xfire" protocol? Have you tried using a standard link in IE, e.g.:

<a href="xfire:status?text=test">Click here</a> to change your status text!</a>

Does that work in IE? If so, you might need to redirect the user to this link via a META refresh tag, or perhaps some Javascript (as well as a standard link for those who don't have JS enabled, of course).

deltaforce229

@ that is an absolute URI

@ i cant edit anything in the <head> tags and im pretty sure the JS for a redirect must be in the <head> tags.

bradgrafelman

Then you might just have to go with a simple link.

It sounds like IE isn't handling the protocol correctly, which means there's nothing you can do on your end to fix that; all you can do is work around that limitation (or force people to use a better browser 😉).