#19098 [Opn]: header("Content-type: text/plain") does not work

ID: 19098 User updated by: michael.mauch@gmx.de Reported By: michael.mauch@gmx.de Status: Open -Bug Type: Apache related +Bug Type: HTTP related Operating System: Linux -PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-08-27 +PHP Version: 4CVS-2002-08-28 New Comment: Ok, so you wanted me to get my hands dirty? I had a look at the code and suggest that it certainly would be a good idea to append the default charset in sapi_apply_default_charset(): --- php4-STABLE-200208281200/main/SAPI.c~ Sat Jul 27 15:17:37 2002 +++ php4-STABLE-200208281200/main/SAPI.c Wed Aug 28 22:27:20 2002 @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ newtype = emalloc(newlen + 1); PHP_STRLCPY(newtype, *mimetype, newlen + 1, len); strlcat(newtype, ";charset=", newlen + 1); + strlcat(newtype, charset, newlen + 1); if (*mimetype != NULL) { efree(*mimetype); } But that is only a part of the problem. In sapi_add_header_ex(), I see the lines: colon_offset = strchr(newheader, ':'); *colon_offset = '\0'; These lines insert a NUL at the colon's position, but I can't see what's their purpose. I changed the bug's category from Apache related to HTTP related because it's certainly not Apache's fault, as it happens in the standalone php-cgi as well. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-27 14:14:38] michael.mauch@gmx.de I just found out that the php-cgi adds an empty charset, if I don't set it: # echo '<? header("Content-type: text/xml");?>' | php-cgi Status: 200 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.0-dev Content-type text/xml;charset= If I set the charset (even an empty one), mod_php _does_ send the Content-type header. <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.7.1>: | When no explicit charset parameter is provided by the | sender, media subtypes of the "text" type are defined to | have a default charset value of "ISO-8859-1" when | received via HTTP. So I think I should be allowed to set no charset. Oh: if I disable the default_charset = "iso-8859-1" in php.ini, it works just like it should, i.e. I can omit the charset and the text/plain or text/xml header is sent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-25 19:15:00] michael.mauch@gmx.de With php4-STABLE-200208251500 and php4-200208251500 the header function does not set the Content-type if it is text/xml or text/plain or text/something. It works with application/xml, and it works with php-4.2.2. # HEAD http://localhost/~elmicha/php/header_xml.php 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:47:51 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.2.2 Content-Type: text/xml Client-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:47:51 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.2 # HEAD http://localhost/~elmicha/php/header_xml.php 200 OK Connection: close Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:48:43 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.2.3-dev Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Client-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 22:48:43 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.3-dev I configured both versions only --with-apxs. The test file: <?php header("Content-type: text/xml"); echo "<hello></hello>\n"; ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19098&edit=1