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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:51:56 +0200
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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Subject: Re: PHP Always Outputs
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On 14-07-2012 16:21, Luuk wrote:
> On 14-07-2012 15:19, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 7/14/2012 4:54 AM, Luuk wrote:
>>> On 14-07-2012 06:21, Ryan wrote:
>>>> I want a php script to run and simply output nothing.  But even this
>>>> script:
>>>>
>>>> <?php
>>>> ?>
>>>>
>>>> will output this html
>>>>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>>>> <HTML><HEAD>
>>>> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
>>>> http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
>>>> <BODY></BODY></HTML>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a setting somewhere in my php or apache config that needs to
>>>> be turned off?
>>>>
>>>
>>> no, PHP will not output what you said.
>>>
>>> The output you see is generated by apache.....
>>>
>>> ~/tmp> cat empty.php
>>> <?php
>>> ?>
>>> ~/tmp> php -f empty.php
>>> ~/tmp>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, Apache does not generate HTML.

oops, i should have typed:
The output you see is 'problably' generated by apache?.....


>>
>> Additionally, PHP generates different output (the appropriate response
>> headers) when run as module or CGI than when run as a CLI.  But it will
>> not generate HTML on its own.

so, in this case PHP will not output anyythingm

>>
> 
> 
> ~/tmp> vi ../public_html/empty.php
> ~/tmp> wget -S "http://www.example.com/~luuk/empty.php" -O output.txt
> asking libproxy about url 'http://www.example.com/~luuk/empty.php'
> libproxy suggest to use 'direct://'
> --2012-07-14 16:18:07--  http://www.example.com/~luuk/empty.php
> Resolving www.example.com (www.example.com)... 192.168.178.250
> Connecting to www.example.com (www.example.com)|192.168.178.250|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:18:07 GMT
>   Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Linux/SUSE)
>   X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.8
>   Content-Length: 0
>   Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
>   Connection: Keep-Alive
>   Content-Type: text/html
> Length: 0 [text/html]
> Saving to: `output.txt'
> 
>     [ <=>
>                         ] 0           --.-K/s   in 0s
> 
> 2012-07-14 16:18:07 (0.00 B/s) - `output.txt' saved [0/0]
> 
> 
> Legnth is 0 bytes, so i'm sure no one is interested in the output.... ;)
> 

remains the question from the OP

if PHP does not do it (as proved above),
i'm sure someone will say:
"This output is not caused by PHP, so 'ask somewhere else'"

@Ryan:

where did you see this:"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC....."
Did you start Internet Explorer, and looked at 'view source'???????
In that case, the HTML was created by IE

-- 
Luuk