PHP headers dont work with no good reason

Question

I'm sending CURL query from my test file (to imitate POST request from another service in future) to my working file. The thing is I'm trying to redirect user after I've received that POST request but no luck, neither through JS nor through PHP. Maybe you can take a look and tell me where is the bug because there is no errors neight in debuger or consol or network tab? i.e. session_id - session starts in User class so it works fine. Thanks in advance

Main file code:

require_once('../../api/classes/User.php');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
$user = new User();

if(isset($_POST['user_id']) && isset($_POST['game']) && isset($_POST['level'])){
            // echo "<script type='text/javascript'> window.location = '../pages/Games/".$_POST['game']."/game.php?token=".session_id()."&level=".$_POST['level'] . "</script>";
            header("Location: someurl/pages/Games/".$_POST['game']."/game.php?token=".session_id()."&level=".$_POST['level']);
}
?>

Test file:

<?php

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
$params = array(
    // "creditBalance"=>"4900",
    // "level"=>1,
    // "result"=>10,
    "user_id"=>"3974ac1f-ec60-c3ea-586e-e822fed8d326",
    "map"=>"",
    "game" => "PetroPro",
    "level" => "2"
    // "token"=>"u39ukhtcjffg86rdj8i011jd82"
);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,"http://localhost/someurl/startSingleGame.php");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,http_build_query($params));
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

I expect that after test.php will send a request the URL should be changed from test.php to whatever I'm sending in headers.

PHP would not show errors in the inspect element window, on any tab. That is reserved for client-side errors/logs — GrumpyCrouton, Aug 14 '19 at 15:42
also, `header('Location ..')` should be followed by `exit()` — treyBake, Aug 14 '19 at 15:43
@GrumpyCrouton I'm using xDebug for Visual Studio and it usually shows if anything is bad with headers — MightyMike, Aug 14 '19 at 15:48
@MightyMike ah, think I caught the comment before the edit :) will rm these comments :) — treyBake, Aug 14 '19 at 15:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '19 at 15:54

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If curl receives a redirect response, it doesn't redirects the script in which it is used
To make the redirect, you need to read the headers from curl response and output a php location header.

I recommend to use Postman for this type of script/API end point testing https://www.getpostman.com/

answered Aug 14 '19 at 15:54

Muhammad Ali Raza

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OMG, I completely forgot about it, I just wanted to train CURL queries and completely forgot about postman on my PC. Thx for reminder ! – MightyMike Aug 14 '19 at 16:35

PHP headers dont work with no good reason

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