PHP 4.0 Bug #6128: header() does not flush properly

From: garths@cs.sfu.ca Operating system: FreeBSD PHP version: 4.0.1pl2 PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function Bug description: header() does not flush properly Calling header("location: *") should immediately send the header to the client (Or if not, flush() or something similar should force this. Documentation unclear). This does not happen. In the following case, the header only gets sent once script execution is finished. header("Location: http://www.blah.com"); flush(); In this case, however, the header gets sent immediately. header("Location: http://www.blah.com"); ECHO " "; flush(); This surely can't be the expected behaviour, since there shouldn't be any body in a redirect header response, and there must be a way to send a header immediately (I believe it worked in some previous versions).