I have a few sites where I deliberately violate the HTTP spec in this way to get around a bug in IE (I know, shame on me). I've been using relative URLs in a "Location" header for years with no crashes that I know of.
There must be something unique in your configuration. Have you mentioned this to the Apache guys? Chris Mike Hall wrote: >>On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:48:33AM +0100, Mike Hall wrote : >> >> >>>You could hardly describe it as a bug if Apache crashes because you're >>>sending Headers that violate the spec, surely? >>> >>> >> Hmm ... I'm not sure. I don't think apache should crash. but >> then how can you be sure it's apache who crashes and not php? >> If it's an apache crash it maybe can be missused too (though >> not remotely). >> >> > >Well, if you send relative URLs in a Location: header, it causes >intermittent sig11's in Apache. Don't know if that is mod_php causing them, >or apache. But it does happen. I had that problem on GG.COM .. took me weeks >to track it down to relative location headers. > >--Mike > > > > > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
