Redirecting and changing the URL

[gameshints]

I have a login page which remembers what you were trying to access, then uses header('Location: url here') to redirect the user back to what they were trying to access after a successful password.

 

However, the URL remains my.domain.here/login.php, instead of where they were redirected to... which breaks my relative links if they are redirected to a page within a subdirectory.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Erik

[marcus]

Show code?

[pkSML]

One thing to check...

 

After a successful login, go to File -> Properties and check the URL for the page.

Sometimes the browser, for whatever reason, does not update the address bar after a page change though you're actually at a new page.

[gameshints]

Yeah, that's my issue.  The browser (both Firefox 2 and IE 7) doesn't update the address bar, and then uses  that old address to calculate the relative links... so everything breaks.

 

Since both browsers did it, I assumed there is something I can do in PHP.

[pkSML]

How are you redirecting? PHP header? If PHP, what is the HTTP status code?

[gameshints]

I'm using header("Location: http://www.example.com/some/sub/directory") which is redirecting using a 302 moved temporary redirect.  I also tried a 301 permanent redirect and it didn't work either.

[pkSML]

Maybe you could make an intermediary webpage. Redirect them to redir.htm with the PHP location header.

 

Then in redir.htm, use a meta-tag refresh to point them to the logged-in location.

[pkSML]

Whoops... Just re-read your first post.

You'll need php, not HTML for the redir page.

 

When they login, send a location header like this: redir.php?http://redirect.to.here.com

Then redir.php will do the meta-tag refresh to take them to the URL in the query string.