Hi. I'm trying to build myself a small JSON-RPC server using PHP. Using wireshark, here's the conversation: Request: POST /.../service.php?nocache=1297004648751 HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.01 Host: localhost Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9 Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8, utf-16, *;q=0.1 Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0 Referer: http://localhost/ssd/php/testrpc/build/ Connection: Keep-Alive, TE TE: deflate, gzip, chunked, identity, trailers Content-Length: 80 Content-Type: application/json Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache X-Qooxdoo-Response-Type: application/json Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary {"service":"test.service","method":"method","id":1,"params":[{"code":"client"}]} said it, Bush junior proved it Response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:04:08 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Accept-Ranges: bytes X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.7 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 6f {"id":2,"result":{"service":"test.service","method":"method","id":2,"params":[{"code":"client"}]},"error":null} 0 The code to handle the request is: <?php $request = json_decode($GLOBALS['HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA']); $response = (object) array( "id" => $request->id, "result" => $request, "error" => null ); header("Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8", true); print json_encode($response); ?> The "6f" above is the length of the output in hex (I tried with various lengths of the string, it is always correct), the 0 at the end is probably some C-like string termination mark. Now, it seems the client (some JavaScript running in Firefox) has no problem decoding the answer, in spite of the hex length placed at the beginning. However, I can't rely on browsers playing nicely with incorrect JSON, so I would very much like to generate an output without the length of the response written as hex at the beginning, and without the terminating 0. What am I doing wrong? Why does the length of the string get written? I tried concatenation of an empty string at the beginning and at the end, supposing that for some reason json_encode() doesn't produce a plain string, and hoping that concatenating it to a proper string would produce a plain string, but it didn't help either. Before posting to the list, I tried searching for the problem on the web, and also experimented by outputting plain, hand-written strings. It didn't really help. Maybe it's a setup problem? My problem is, php is absolutely new to me, so I don't even know how to start diagnosing the problem (I started experimenting just a few hours ago). To decide whether it's a setup problem, here's the development platform: OS: Kubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Apache: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP: 1.0.5-dev json version: 1.2.1 I don't think the browser is relevant, since it behaves the same in Opera and Firefox, and it doesn't happen in the browser, it happens on the server, since that's what wireshark shows. TIA, flj -- In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. (Napoleon) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
