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Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:21:08 +0200
From: Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan>
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Subject: Re: PHP Always Outputs
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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.
> 
> 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.
> 


you are right

~/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'

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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.... ;)