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This is really weird.. I have the following redirect in a file:
header('Location: http://google.com');
It doesn’t work. The page loads and the user is not redirected. However, if I add a die() statement below that line, like this:
header('Location: http://google.com');
die('what the heck is going on here?');
Then the redirect magically starts working!
I’m at a total loss as to why this is happening, and I have no idea how to debug it.
Can anyone give me any advice on this?
You are supposed to exit after sending a location header. Sending any header does not affect the flow of the script so any code after it still executes. If anything causes a different response status code to be set the redirect will not happen at all.
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Locationheader by itself does nothing – only together with the proper 30x response code it will cause a redirect. PHP sets this response code manually when sending aLocationheader but your code might modify it.