PHP Header redirects

mattastic

Hello,

Can anyone explain as to why this header redirect works:

<?php 
error_reporting(-1);

ini_set('display_errors', true);
header("location: http://www.bbc.co.uk");
echo phpinfo();
 ?>

But this one doesnt:

<?php 
error_reporting(-1);

ini_set('display_errors', true);
header("location: http://www.bbc.co.uk");

 ?>

I dont get any errors just a blank screen, why would I have to echo out php info to get my header to work?

Would it be a server config somewhere?

Any advice much appreciated.

NogDog

One possible way to find out would be to change your error_reporting() value to E_ALL and see if PHP will tell you why. My first guess would be that there is some sort of white-space before the opening <?php tag (including the possibility of a unicode BOM.

bradgrafelman

In the latter example, what does the raw server response (HTTP headers and all) look like that gets sent to your browser?

hanisnl

you can use a browser extension to read the header server response .

Weedpacket

Most common browsers these days have that built in.