I knew my description was a bit mangled; I was trying to keep it short. Sorry. Take two: A "remote server" is sending event records to "my server" using HTTP POST requests to http://my.server.com/storeit.php, let's say. The remote server expects acknowledgement by way of a response to its request. My script ("storeit.php") must respond like it would any other page request over HTTP; it simply uses echo/print to produce a response. This would work fine EXCEPT that the remote server is *badly* written. Its flaw? The HTTP headers included in my response trip it up. For some reason, it expects just the *contents* of the response, without headers. Here's a mock up of the current situation: --->Received from remote server HTTP/1.0 storeit.php POST Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 35 Host: 11.11.11.11 <DATA> <KEY>value</KEY> </DATA> <--- Reply sent to remote server HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml Content-Length: 34 Host: 22.22.22.22 <ACK> <ERROR>0</ERROR> </ACK> What the reply needs to look like is: <--- Reply sent to remote server <ACK> <ERROR>0</ERROR> </ACK> No headers. -----Original Message----- From: tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:00 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: thomascapote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to suppress HTTP headers? So their page POSTs to a PHP page that you've created? I'm not seeing where headers come into play there, they're on output, not input. Maybe I just stayed up too late last night, but I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around the problem. One thing I did notice was you mentioned switches for CGI vs CLI SAPI. I expect that there wouldn't be a switch for CLI because no headers are needed when using PHP command line, therefore nothing to turn off. Again, maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation but thought I'd throw that thought in the ring. Maybe you can describe the interaction between the system you can't control and your PHP scripts better. Walk us through it step by step. -TG = = = Original message = = = I am coding a PHP page to deal with a badly implemented automated status update script on a remote server (that I do not control) which fails if my response to it's POST request has HTTP headers. Go figure. So the question is "How do I NOT send HTTP headers in my response?" or "How can my script suppress headers completely?" Whatever the solution, it should affect only this page/script. In chapter 43, the PHP Manual states: "Though the CGI SAPI provides a way to suppress HTTP headers, there's no equivalent switch to enable them in the CLI SAPI." How would one suppress HTTP headers, as noted above, in the CGI SAPI for a particular page on my site? Somebody, please help. --TC. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
