HTTP 303 See Other

The HTTP See Other status code is used when performing redirects.

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Edited: 2020-01-04 22:38

The HTTP 303 See Other status code tells the browser that the response for the request can be found at a different location, wheres the new location should be provided in the location header.

Do not use this for redirects. If a page is moved, you should instead use the 301 response code.

Below is an example of how the 303 See Other redirect would look:

HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
Location: http://beamtic.com/

To deliver a 303 response with PHP, we can write a simple one-liner using the header function:

header("Location: https://example.com/",TRUE,303);

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A more readable way of doing it would be by using http_response_code, this way we will not have to memorize the order of the parameters in the header function:

http_response_code(303);
header('Location: https://example.com/');

To instead send the headers raw, you would need to both make sure you use the right protocol, and be very careful not to misspell the headers:

header(set_protocol() . ' 303 See Other');
header('Location: https://example.com/');

function set_protocol() {
  $supported_protocols = array(
    'HTTP/2.0' => true,
    'HTTP/1.1' => true,
    'HTTP/1.0' => true,
  );
  $protocol = $_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"];
  if (!isset($supported_protocols["$protocol"])) {
    $protocol = 'HTTP/1.0';
  }
  return $protocol;
}

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