Header Redirect Errors

electron

Dec 1 2006, 05:34 PM

Hi,

I am using the header function to redirect after the processing of the form.
I have to specify a internal link using '#link'.

This works in Firefox and opera.
But in Internet Explorer internal linking when done from a redirect is not working for somewhat reasons.

e.g. header("Location: http://www.example.com/index.php#link");

this works in Firefox and Opera but not in Internet Explorer .
IE just accepts 'http://www.example.com/index.php' instead of http://www.example.com/index.php#link

Please help me if you know anything about this.
Well there might be a issue in Internet Explorer 7 and i dont have Internet Explorer 6.
If you know of such bugs in Internet Explorer 7 or any such bugs in PHP let me know.

Thanks and have a good day.

shadowx

Dec 1 2006, 10:27 PM

that's strange, it probably is an error in IE7 if it works in other browsers, if theres any way of putinng the code online i, or someone else can test it in IE6, FF opera etc as well and see if we get errors too. You using the #link to focus the browser on a specific part of the page right? in which case i would definately say its a browser based problem not a code based one.

biscuitrat

Dec 3 2006, 05:06 AM

You were doing this, right?:

CODE

<a href="http://www.example.com#link">This is anchor text</a>
<a id(or name)="link"></a> This is the text at the beginning of a paragraph

Please post your code so we can check it!

detportal

Dec 3 2006, 09:13 AM

Isn't there something you can do on the cPanel, assuming you are hosted on trap17?
They have something you can do to manage redirects, though I'm not sure if you can configure it to activate after you process a form.
And I agree with the previous poster, you should paste your code here so we can have a look at it.

Spectre

Jan 9 2007, 05:14 PM

This has nothing to do with cPanel or with linking. And he did post his code.

I've never encountered this problem as such, electron, but when I did a little experimenting with it I got some interesting results. Some of the time it would work fine for me and do exactly what it was supposed to - but other times there was some unusual behavior by the browser, including displaying the incorrect URL in the address box, displaying the correct URL but without the fragment, and displaying the fragment but not scrolling to it. As you said it works fine in Opera and FireFox, so perhaps it's connected to a bug in IE7 that hasn't been ironed out yet?

coby

Feb 18 2007, 04:02 AM

I've also encountered this problem as such, electron, but when I did a little experimenting with it I got some interesting results. Some of the time it would work fine for me and do exactly what it was supposed to - but other times there was some unusual behavior by the browser, including displaying the incorrect URL in the address box, displaying the correct URL but without the fragment, and displaying the fragment but not scrolling to it. As you said it works fine in Opera and FireFox,

please use this code in your php code, it's worked fine with me

echo "<meta HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" content=\"1; url=".$PHP_SELF."#link\">";

coby

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