ID:               36705
 Updated by:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reported By:      alisencer at gmail dot com
 Status:           Open
 Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: FreeBSD
 PHP Version:      5.1.2
 New Comment:

It's even that way in PHP-4.


Previous Comments:
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[2006-03-12 16:29:20] ali dot sencer at gmail dot com

download and tried it (php5.1-200603121330)
$ ./php -v
PHP 5.1.3RC2-dev (cgi-fcgi) (built: Feb 20 2006 15:24:12)
...

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/php5.1-200603121330/sapi/cgi$ echo "<?php header( 'Status:
301' );header( 'Location: http://www.example.org' );?>" | ./php

Status: 302
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.3RC2-dev
Status: 301
Location: http://www.example.org
Content-type: text/html

The bug is still present.


> One should not use "Status: 123" but "HTTP/1.x 123".

Did I miss an announcement? Since when is that? Using HTTP/1.x type
headers was not working on a variety of systems with (f)cgi, which is
why the following snippet was introduced (which is in a lot of
applications):

if (substr(php_sapi_name(), 0, 3) == 'cgi')
        header("Status: $status");
else
        header("HTTP/1.1 $status");

(which was the only solution that worked on all systems - until some
recent changes in newer releases.)

I could have sworn this was somehwere in the documentation even. So in
which versions was this changed? How can portable applications in PHP
be written, if these things change silently every now and then.

Why can header("Status: ") be used at all, if it's not supposed to be
used? 

Can the behaviour at least be "fixed" in such a way, that (f)cgi won't
send "Status: " twice, which results in a 500 error by the webserver.
Thanks.

[edit: I am the bug-submitter, but must have mistyped my password]

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[2006-03-12 15:55:22] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recalssifying as a documentation problem.

One should not use "Status: 123" but "HTTP/1.x 123".


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[2006-03-12 15:39:18] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.1-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.1-win32-latest.zip



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[2006-03-12 14:14:36] alisencer at gmail dot com

Description:
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In php-fastcgi, a header("Location: ..") call always results in an
additional "Status:" header.  This causes the web server to throw a 500
Internal server error.

Identical code works perfectly in mod_php.  The problem is specific to
fastcgi.

It doesn't matter what Status code the first header() call sends; the
"Location:" call always adds a second "Status: 302" line.

The effect is, that it becomes impossible to use
header("Location;..."), if at any previous point in the script a Status
header has been sent. It is also contrary to what the documentation
says:

http://de.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

"The second special case is the "Location:" header. Not only does it
send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT
(302) status code to the browser unless some 3xx status code has
already been set." 

(Note the last part of that paragraph)

Related: This seems to be what was happening in this bug report as
well: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33225 which unfortunately was
closed as bogus.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$ echo "<?php header( 'Status: 301' );header( 'Location:
http://www.example.org' );?>" | php/php-fastcgi/php5-fcgi 

Expected result:
----------------
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Status: 301
Location: http://www.example.com

Actual result:
--------------
Status: 302
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Status: 301
Location: http://www.example.com


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