Correct status

Am I causing confusion

[olwen]

My script reads

<?php
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.co.nz/mydir"); 
header("Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
?>

and produces the following headers

Server Response: http://www.mydomain.co.nz 
Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found 
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:04:36 GMT 
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.3.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 mod_ssl/2.8.14 OpenSSL/0.9.6b 
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.1 
Status: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 
Location: http://www.mydomain.co.nz/mydir 
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 
Connection: Keep-Alive 
Transfer-Encoding: chunked 
Content-Type: text/html 

Does the repeated status cause confusion? And is there a way of suppressing the first status. I want to use this technique sith a tracking script.

[mischief]

Yes, the repeated status causes confusion.

To stop it happening, just put the status header before the location header.

[olwen]

I've already tried it that way, still the same result.

[Lisa]

I believe the Location header sets the 302 header for you. You should not try and set another header if you are doing a location command. This may be a PHP bug, as I know I have encountered it in the past.

[olwen]

The php manual says

The second special case is the "Location:" header. Not only does it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser unless some 3xx status code has already been set.

The discussion on php.net about the header function suggested setting the status code in the way I have done, but it doesn't look good.

[Lisa]

Looks like a bug to me, I just never worried about it because it set a 302. You might file it under bugs.php.net

[olwen]

A bit more playing and reading, and I've got it right.

<?php
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.co.nz/mydir");
?>