how does one send a "302 redirect" http header?

[lawrence k]

Not especially a PHP question, but how does one indicate a 302
redirect? Or does Apache do that automatically if I use PHP to send a
location header?

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Does Apache send a redirect code? Or do I have to?

[John Dunlop]

lawrence k:

Not especially a PHP question, but how does one indicate a 302
redirect? Or does Apache do that automatically if I use PHP to send a
location header?

header('Location: ... ') causes Apache to send a 302 unless you have
already sent another 3xx response (e.g., header('HTTP/1.1 301 ... ')).
It's documented at

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

--
Jock

[Colin McKinnon]

lawrence k wrote:

Not especially a PHP question, but how does one indicate a 302
redirect? Or does Apache do that automatically if I use PHP to send a
location header?

No, when you use PHP to send a location header you are doing that, however
the default behaviour in PHP is to do exactly what you suggest - i.e. send
a 302 header - this is most likely WRONG, and really you should be sending
a 301,303 or 307 depending on the context. RTFM.

C.