Redirect in php server side after http request

Question

I am very new to php so this question might be trivial. I am trying to understand if it is possible to redirect the browser from php server side to the page returned by HTTP request.

I have a HTTP Post request looking like so:

$postdata = http_build_query(
    array(
       "someData" => "data" ,
    )
);

$opts = array('http' =>
    array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'content' => $postdata,
        'header'  =>
            "Cookie: someCookie" .
            'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8'
    )

);

$context  = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = fopen('myWebsiteUrl', 'r', false, $context);

var_dump(stream_get_contents($result));

In the post I am being redirected to a different page with Get. I am trying to force the browser to move to the 'redirected' page. With the above code I am getting back the html of the redirected page but what I'm after is an actual redirect. The option of retrieving the redirect URL and doing the redirect myself in PHP doesn't work because the Get request has to happen within the same session as the Post.

jonas3344 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-22 14:27:35Z

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header('Location: whereveryouwantogo.php?get=123456');

does a redirect for you with a GET-parameter attached. I'm not sure if I really got your question right, but I'm pretty sure you could do what you want/need with the header-command.

answered Feb 22, 2018 at 14:27

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3 Comments

sharky Over a year ago

Like I mentioned in the last sentence, doing the redirect after the http won't work. The redirect is done within the http action.

jonas3344 Over a year ago

Ah, now I get it. I don't think this is possible the way you'd like to have it.

sharky Over a year ago

Thanks. I thought this might be the case.

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