header() not being honored?

From	Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	header() not being honored?
Date	2011-07-08 08:57 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<iv6v01$qou$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink)

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I am trying to have php output previously gzipped data, but it seems 
like php is ignoring the call altogether.

Code:

#######################################
/* Trying to prevent the chunked encoding */
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file) );
header('Content-Encoding: gzip');

readfile($file);

echo "anything";

die();
########################################

It seems that the first call header get completely ignored (I watched 
the headers with telnet) and after the readfile() call the the echo is 
never used.

Am I misunderstanding how to use the header function?  Is there another 
way to see whats going on?  Unfortunately, I'm in a shared hosting 
environment, PHP: 4.4.9

--
Bill

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header() not being honored? Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> - 2011-07-08 08:57 -0400
  Re: header() not being honored? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-08 14:11 -0400
  Re: header() not being honored? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2011-07-09 04:25 -0600
  Re: header() not being honored? Andre <pas@pourmois.be> - 2011-07-09 13:03 +0000
    Re: header() not being honored? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-10 08:47 +0200
      Re: header() not being honored? Andre <pas@pourmois.be> - 2011-07-10 14:18 +0000

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