echo or redirect?

Which would be faster...
Echoing out a short tell-a-freind confirmation page
or
just redirecting them to it via
header("Location: http://site.com/folder/confirm.php");
?
Nothings been cached except the style and form's validation.
Thx

Redirect.....

It'll take like not even a second

It'll just be the same if the html is the same. Using a header redirect would be easier for you to update the html though

I've been told that:

echoing would have a more reliable completion time as you have to deal with pipe clogs when you redirect.


Comments?

echoing would have a more reliable completion time as you have to deal with pipe clogs when you redirect

.... and check your dilithium crystals are correctly phased :D

header("location:blah");

Well, if using a header redirect, how would I again post the vars to the redirected page without using a session, etc.?

ah ok , well if there is not too much data you could just pass it bak via GET ?

<?
header("location:temp.php?var={$_POST['value']}&var2=etc"));
?>

or all at once

<?
header("location:temp.php?blah=".serialize($_POST));
?>
(you could base64_encode() it as well to look less dodgy :) )


or as you suggest use sessions, you could indeed use fsockopen and POST the data to your new page as well but thats overkill.

alternately , you could use apaches mod_rewrite to rewrite the url for you in the first place (wont be available on all hosts)

...or simply echo out the data. ;)