You're right Erik. Subtle, ain't it?
On the other hand, look how accepting browsers are of malformed HTML. I'm
inclined to think that today they see the <HTML> tag and 'think': "So, we
assumed HTML anyway."
Cheers - Miles Thompson
At 08:57 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, Erik Price wrote:
>Sorry, I debugged it myself.
>
>Don't add extra whitespace lines after you jump out of PHP mode (for
>instance, at the end of an include file, don't have any extra lines after
>the '?> PHP-jump-out mark'. The extra lines at the bottom of the
>functions include file was being interpreted as the end of the headers.
>(Man that book on HTTP I was reading at the library came in handy! Perl
>Web Client Programming or something)
>
>It isn't truly HTML since it isn't between the <html> and </html> tags,
>but it gets sent along as blank lines in the HTML document.
>
>That's my theory , anyway.
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>Erik
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>On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 08:50 PM, Erik Price wrote:
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>>I've run into a problem:
>>
>>At the top of each page in my site I have a couple of include files.
>>They handle simple things, really -- a session_start() in one of them, as
>>well as a check for a session variable to make sure that the user is
>>logged in. In another one, I have my database connection parameters.
>>Yet another include file contains my functions. They are all actually
>>included into one central include file called "common.inc", and this file
>>is included at the top of each page in my site.
>>
>>None of these output any HTML at this point -- they only do
>>behind-the-scenes PHP work and preparation for the page about to be
>>displayed below.
>>
>>Nonetheless, I have a "header('Location: n')" function just under the
>>include("./common.inc") function, and it refuses to work. The error
>>message says that the headers have already been sent, at line 109 of my
>>functions includefile. This in itself is strange, because the last line
>>of the functions includefile that has any instructions on it is 103, the
>>next six lines are just empty whitespace.
>>
>>I would think that my header() function would work, because I haven't
>>outputted any HTML yet (such as the <html> tag or the DOCTYPE). I
>>haven't outputted any text at all. But the header() doesn't work,
>>because it seems to think that the headers have already been sent.
>>
>>At what point in the HTTP exchange do the "headers" finish being sent?
>>Is there a timeout, or a certain line, or what? I thought that it was a
>>blank line, but since I haven't outputted any text, I am not sure how
>>that's possible.
>>
>>
>>Erik
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