Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5051
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:09:55 +0000
To: internals@lists.php.net
Message-ID: <20031028220955.GA569@pulse.oxfordarch.enta.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; Format=Flowed; DelSp=Yes; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Lines: 24
Subject: header() behaviour
From: gaz@fission.org.uk (Gareth Ardron)

Apologies if this is the wrong list.

I've just been running into some wierd issues regarding the header()  
function, which I'm not 100% sure if it's desired behaviour or not.

Basically, we have a few variables such as:
$var = "foo=1&bar=2";
Now this variable gets used in 2 cases. The first is as a direct link  
in an <a href>. The second is as an automatic redirect using header 
("Location: blah"); This works great, but in an order to make this page  
fully html/xhtml compliant, we've been changing $var so that it's:
$var = "foo=1&amp;bar=2";
Now, for the first case - this works absolutly fine.
For the second case however, header passes the full variable without  
resolving &amp; to &.

I can't figure out if this is desired or not, if it's not, I'll happily  
draft up a patch to alter the behaviour - I just want to make sure  
before I do.

Cheers,

--
Gareth Ardron