Stoping .htaccess from sending redirect (302) header

Question

I'm creating an API, and I'm testing CRUD the functionality with an external client.

To be able to skip index.php in the URL, and only use '.../producer/id' etc I changed redirection in the .htaccess file (se below) which works accept for the fact that no other header code than 201 - Created can be sent out from the server. If I try to send out any other code it automatically becomes the following code:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:42:10 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l PHP/5.3.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.1 Location: /producers/ Content-Length: 565 Content-Type: application/json

As an example is the php code below. If I add a '!' before $result so that the statement becomes false the header in the else statement should be sent out, which doesn't happen. Again, this 302 header is sent out. If I leave it as is the 201 header is sent out, just as it should.

Why is this happening?

php:

if ($result) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 201 Created');
        header('Location: /producers/' . $id);
}
else {
    header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
    header('Location: /producers/' . $id
}

.htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On

    # Allow images and statics to be addressable
    RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png|css|js)$ [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    # You have to manually change to our username or directory where our controller index is host

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Location: always triggers a redirect, which is always a 3xx status code.

If you want to output any other code, append it to the other header, and don't send a Location:

if ($result) {
    header('HTTP/1.1 201 Created', 201);
} elseif ($errors) {
    header('Location: /theform.php'); // 301 by default
} else {
    header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error', 500);
}