wp_redirect does not work

Question

I have a problem with wp_redirect which does seem to redirect. It's a full url that is on the current website. I need to put exit(); after wp_redirect for it to redirect. Is this normal? Redirect is in an init action btw.

Answer 1

The only thing wp_redirect() is adding HTTP header to the current request. It doesn't prevent request from proceeding to further loading page and must be followed by exit statement to work correctly.