[geeklog-users] Re: com_Refresh

Lucas Gonze lgonze at panix.com
Mon Dec 8 13:18:54 EST 2003


Doh. The answer was in the function comment:

* This function COM_passes a meta tag to COM_refresh after a form is
sent. This is
* necessary because for some reason Nutscrape and PHP4 don't play well
with
* the header() function COM_100% of the time.

On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 13:13 America/New_York, Lucas Gonze wrote:


> I need to ask about the reasoning behind this:

>

> function COM_refresh( $url )

> {

> return "<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;

> URL=$url\"></head></html>\n";

> }

>

> This is broken in my site for reasons I don't yet understand. One

> possible fix is to use the HTTP Location: header, but that brings up

> the issue of why you guys didn't do that in the first place. My guess

> is that the Location: header led to bugs that I don't know about...

> Yes?

>

>





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