#523 Problem with Request-->redirect

[Thierry Nabeth]

Hello,

As I moved from a Windows 2000 to a Windows 2003
server, I got some problem with the redirect function.

I am running PhpWiki under IIS6.
(things are working relatively well if we except
this problem, and a logout problem that I mentionned
previously).

I use the latest version of PHP 5. (5.12 I believe).

Here is the problem I have:

I have
DISABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT set to true.

(when I set DISABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT to false the system
works).

When I update a page, and after I click on the Save
button, the system never returns.
When I stop the browser and look at the page, I can
see that my page has been correctly updated.

I spent sometime trying to figure out what was the
problem (Initially I though about a bug with IIS6 and
the http redirect, but other tests have shown me that
http redirect work).

The problem seems to originate in Request.php

function redirect($url, $noreturn = true) {
$bogus = defined('DISABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT') &&
DISABLE_HTTP_REDIRECT;

if (!$bogus) {
header("Location: $url");
....
}

if ($noreturn) {
$this->discardOutput(); // This might print the
gzip headers. Not good.
$this->buffer_output(false);

 include_once('lib/Template.php');
 $tmpl = new Template('redirect', $this, array

('REDIRECT_URL' => $url));
$tmpl->printXML(); ===> #### BLOCKED ####

 $this->finish();  ==> not executed ????

}
...

}

As a workaround, I have commented the $tmpl->printXML
();.

I do not know what this redirect template is about.
(could be good to have a few more comments in the
code)

Thierry.

[Thierry Nabeth]

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Note:

I have seen that there was some fix of the file
Request.php file.

I have installed this new version, but it does not solve
the problem.

[Thierry Nabeth]

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Hello,

Having investigated a little bit and understood a little
bit more the template thing, I have notice that the
problem may originate, in some http servers (such as IIS6)
that we are sending twice header information related to
redirection.

In the function redirect(), we have a call to the function

header("Location: $url");

and later using the template call, we are sending another
redirect page.
I assume that some servers get confused.

In my code I will therefore keep commented the call to the
redirect template, althought I would have been interested
to know if there is any use of this file (since the
server --or is it the client?-- is supposed to have
already redirected the request when using the header
("Location: $url")).

Thierry

[Thierry Nabeth]

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Testing again:

Commenting the sending of header information (what is
inside the block if (!$bogus) {...} ) also seems to solve
the problem (for IIS6).

Question:

It is still not clear to me what would be the best way
(most standard according to the http specifications?,
performence?, felxibility) to redirect the page.

Thierry

[Reini Urban]

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Thanks. I'll disable the 2nd redirect for IIS