Can I redirect from a URL to another without running ZF2 application twice?

Question

I want to redirect a user from one url to another. I used $this->redirect()->toRoute() but i've noticed that the application runs twice as if the user made 2 requests.

Answer 1

Of course you have 2 requests. Because the following will happen:

1. Request to /someroute
2. Response from someroute will contain "go to /otherroute"
3. Request to /otherroute
4. Response HTML

Maybe a workaround is not to use redirect() , but forward() . The disadvantage is that you are still on /someroute while getting response from /otherroute .

Answer 2

I'm not very familiar with ZF2, but in PHP you can use

header('Location:www.url.com');

Can you try it?