Header converting & to &

[rsnider19]

I am doing some basic website scraping and I have the following snippet:

ob_start();
$str = "Location: http://www.example.com/?&id=001";
header($str);
ob_end_flush(); 

Obviously this is not the site I am going to, but as an example. So the script then goes to Example Web Page instead. I tried urlencode/urldecode, but neither worked. Any ideas?

[BlaineSch]

The url is wrong. If it's the first variable it does not require the "&" symbol. That is for something 'after' the first variable:

Location: http://www.example.com/?&id=001 

Should be:

Location: http://www.example.com/?id=001 

Example:

Location: http://www.example.com/?id=001&iLove=BlaineSch