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[J. T. Gray]

No, some processing continues after the redirect.


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Rob Marscher
<rmarscher at beaffinitive.com>wrote:

> On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:45 AM, J. T. Gray wrote:
>
> This is an odd one, but I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on this
> for me...  I have two sites on different dedicated servers and am passing
> visitors from one to another, based on specific actions.  To do this, I use
> Header("Location:  http://www.foo.com"); and successfully redirect the
> majority of users.  However, anywhere from 5-30% of traffic never makes it
> to the other site, according to the apache logs on each.  I'm unable to
> duplicate the problem, as it seems to only happen under a real life load
> (moderate, though, not heavy), but I have visitors who show up in the logs
> for box 1 and not box 2.  I added a Try {} Catch {} block to the header
> redirect, to collect more useful troubleshooting details, but I never got a
> single alert, suggesting the php redirect was successful.
>
> I find it hard to accept that 5-30% of traffic simply won't make it to its
> destination without a trace, but I can run test after test of actual traffic
> and see that, even in the small tests, many visitors are not redirecting.
> Does anyone know why this would happen and/or what's happening and/or how to
> set up a good test to trace visitors from one site to another?
>
>
> Sorry if this is stating the obvious... but do you call "exit;" right after
> your header() call?
>
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