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Re: PHP Always Outputs

From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: PHP Always Outputs
Date 2012-07-14 15:46 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/14/2012 10:51 AM, Luuk wrote:
> 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
>

Yes, he's using IE, which inserted the HTML when it got a blank page 
back.  This can easily be duplicated in IE 8.

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PHP Always Outputs Ryan <rbilesky@gmail.com> - 2012-07-13 21:21 -0700
  Re: PHP Always Outputs Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-14 10:54 +0200
    Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 09:19 -0400
      Re: PHP Always Outputs Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-14 16:21 +0200
        Re: PHP Always Outputs Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-14 16:51 +0200
          Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 15:46 -0400
  Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 09:17 -0400
  Re: PHP Always Outputs Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2012-07-14 13:37 +0000
    Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 09:46 -0400
      Re: PHP Always Outputs Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2012-07-14 14:40 +0000
        Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 15:00 -0400
          Re: PHP Always Outputs Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2012-07-14 20:12 +0000
            Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 16:16 -0400
              Re: PHP Always Outputs Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2012-07-15 00:59 +0000
                Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-14 21:49 -0400
                Re: PHP Always Outputs Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2012-07-15 16:14 +0000
                Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-15 14:15 -0400
                Re: PHP Always Outputs Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-07-16 16:48 -0700
                Re: PHP Always Outputs Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-16 20:30 -0400
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    Re: PHP Always Outputs Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-07-16 19:18 +0100
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