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Asked: 2026-05-22T21:04:50+00:00

Ok so i have a from that people are using on our site to

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Ok so i have a from that people are using on our site to download a software application….There are actually 4 different forms that are linking to the same php script and i need to redirect all of them to the thank_you page with the $_POST[‘application_to_download’] the problem i am having is how do i send this variable with the php header..here is my code

this will just open the download

header("location:".$_POST['application_to_download']);

which works great but i need the user to be redirected to the thank_you page…so my second approach was to try the post approach 

$post_data = "software={$_POST['application_to_download']}";
$content_length = strlen($post_data);

header('POST /downloads/thank_you HTTP/1.1');
header('Host: localhost');
header('Connection: close');
header('Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
header('Content-length: ' . $content_length);
header('');
header($post_data);

Im not sure whats going on with this approach but its just not redirecting at all and lastly i can do this

header("location:"./downloads/thank_you?software=$_POST['application_to_download']);

something like that but the url looks like this

 http://somesite.com/downloads/thank_you?software=videovision10_1_07.exe

which is not the prettiest if you ask me….i mean i know i can do this but i was looking for an alternative….btw here is why i need it on the thank_you page

<title>Thank You</title>
</head>
<body onload="window.location = '<?php print $_POST['software']; ?>'">

any suggestions

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would recommend instead that you redirect to the thank-you page, and use a meta-refresh to trigger the file download.

    header('Location: /thank_you_page.php?redirectTo=' . $_POST['app_to_dl']);

    and in the thank you page:

    echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" CONTENT=\"1;URL=" . $_GET['redirectTo'] . "\">";

    Give that a shot..

    edit: Now I see you mentioned the GET variable… Do you really think people are looking at your URL and judging it?

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