How do you force redirect?

[eluser]danbirlem[/eluser]
I have a form that after submitting I am trying to get it to go back to a fixed URL but it never seems to completely direct, only append the URL.

Here's the controller code:

Code:

function delete() {
        $this->Estimatemodel->delete_estimate();
        
        $html_head = array( 'title' => 'Estimate Management' );

        $estimates = $this->Estimatemodel->get_estimates();

        $this->load->view('html_head', $html_head);
        $this->load->view('estimates/view', array('estimates' => $estimates));
        $this->load->view('html_foot');
    }

The redirect() function within documentation doesn't work to append the URL, but I want a forced complete redirect to the URL.