From: sverker at fridqvist dot se
Operating system: Linux lhotse 2.6.12-1-386
PHP version: 5.0.5
PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function
Bug description: Strange extra characters appears on page
Description:
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Three extra characters () are inserted at the top of my
page. If I start the main page with ob_end_clean() these
characters do not appear.
It seems to me that a bug causes PHP to generate and send
the extra characters to Apache. The characters certainly
have not been coded by me.
I have not been able to generate the problem through other
PHP code.
The page is generated by PHP5 code distributed on > 10
classes in individual files that are required as needed
through __autoload().
The HTML is generated using DOMImplementation, and output in
one of the required files through this code:
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');
echo $doc->saveXML();
This is the one single echo statement in the code.
Reproduce code:
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I am reluctant to expose the complete code, since it would reveal
connection info for my database that I prefer to keep for myself, and the
code will not work without the DB anyway.
If you are interested in following up this, I am willing to do some
experiments to reproduce the error with other code.
Expected result:
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I expect the page to look this way:
http://sverker.fridqvist.se/test/index.php5
Actual result:
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Without the ob_end_clean() at the top of the code the page
will contain the extra characters:
http://sverker.fridqvist.se/test/indexError.php5
The extra characters are visible with Mac OS X browser Camino
0.9a1, but not with Safari and Opera. The W3C validator
reports the characters as an error.
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=35133&r=mysqlcfg
