On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:05 -0400, Jonathan Vanasco wrote: > How do people usually handle searches and redirects? > IE - someone searches for something, you process the search, and if > there's one record, you redirect them to that record. > Except, in that situation, the browser 'location' will still be for the > search page. > > Would it be best to create a new url via r->uri and send the use to > that/ > or to send a location header to redirect that way? > or maybe there's a way to process things internally, then just show a > diff. location in the header bar
There are only two options: internal redirect, which does not change the URL from the user's perspective, or a "normal" redirect using a Location header, which does change the URL. If you want the URL changed, use the latter. - Perrin