#32906 [Opn->Bgs]: Content length bug

ID: 32906 Updated by: rasmus@php.net Reported By: papasha_papovich at mail dot ru -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: cURL related Operating System: Windows XP SP1 PHP Version: 4.3.10 New Comment: That's not curl's fault. If the server you are connecting to doesn't send a content-length response header, there is no way for curl to know the content-length. The headers from http://www.softmath.com are: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 16:55:48 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7d Connection: close Content-Type: text/html You will find that many servers won't send a content-length for dynamically generated content. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-05-01 18:23:57] papasha_papovich at mail dot ru Description: ------------ I use CURL to get only the length of the document, I use CURLOPT_NOBODY option, it returns the response header ok, but with content-length field set to zero. Reproduce code: --------------- $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.softmath.com"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true); curl_exec($ch); print_r(curl_getinfo($ch)); curl_close($ch); Expected result: ---------------- Array ( [url] => http://www.softmath.com [content_type] => text/html [http_code] => 200 [header_size] => 162 [request_size] => 74 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0.297 [namelookup_time] => 0 [connect_time] => 0.14 [pretransfer_time] => 0.14 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 0 [speed_download] => 0 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => [the size of index page] [upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 0.297 [redirect_time] => 0 ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( [url] => http://www.softmath.com [content_type] => text/html [http_code] => 200 [header_size] => 162 [request_size] => 74 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0.297 [namelookup_time] => 0 [connect_time] => 0.14 [pretransfer_time] => 0.14 [size_upload] => 0 [size_download] => 0 [speed_download] => 0 [speed_upload] => 0 [download_content_length] => 0 [upload_content_length] => 0 [starttransfer_time] => 0.297 [redirect_time] => 0 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32906&edit=1