RE: PHP4.0.2

The problem with writing a note about bugs is that it appears totally negative. I'm actually quite pleased with the progress. We know what doesn't work and either avoid or work around the difficulty. With some additional testing we are actually planning on going into production. Howard A. Cohodas Design Knowledge Technologies Inc. Phone: (011)(330)492-9900 FAX: (011)(330)492-1100 otfGIF Encoder: http://www.dkt.com/otfGIF -----Original Message----- From: Richard Fink [mailto:rfink@worldpassage.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:33 PM To: website-talk@list.ora.com Subject: Re: PHP4.0.2 Sounds like "close but no cigar" situation. Too bad. We've been getting some requests for PHP and I thought we'd just go for 4.0. -Ric At 06:29 PM 8/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: >New release available: http://www.php.net/downloads.php. > >The "possibly" WebSite/Windows bugs that I know about are: >1. CGI version with content-type of wwwserver/shellcgi causes a Dr. Watson >error. > >2. The Content-Type Header is missing from the header block. The >"mandatory" blank line is also missing. The workaround for scripts is to >insert a blank line in the source. The phpinfo function which uses the >GIUD, however, produces an image that is not rendered because of these >problems. > >3. Persistent connections are not re-used. Therefore the number of >sleeping processes continues to grow. I believe it is a windows (not >WebSite issue) because I have demonstrated the effect with MySQL and >PostgreSQL. > >4. The Windows COM interface now works great. This was my primary reason >for not releasing PHP4 to production. > >5. gettimeofday and microtime function do not work properly with Windows. > >6. read_exif_data fails. I have not been able to isolate this as a Windows, >WebSite or combination problem. > > > >Howard A. Cohodas >Design Knowledge Technologies Inc. >Phone: (011)(330)492-9900 > FAX: (011)(330)492-1100 >otfGIF Encoder: http://www.dkt.com/otfGIF > > > >+---------------------------------------------+ >Leaving list: Mailto:listmanager@list.ora.com >Message BODY: leave website-talk >Problems: Help file Mailto:help@list.ora.com >For Support on using the website-talk list >mailto:support@list.ora.com >+---------------------------------------------+ ===================================================================== Richard Fink Tel: 415 381-0215 WorldPassage Fax: 415 381-0822 P.O.Box 2339 rfink@worldpassage.net Mill Valley, CA 94942 http://www.worldpassage.net WorldPassage is a communications service and Internet Service Provider owned and operated by RainTree Computer Systems, Inc. +---------------------------------------------+ Leaving list: Mailto:listmanager@list.ora.com Message BODY: leave website-talk Problems: Help file Mailto:help@list.ora.com For Support on using the website-talk list mailto:support@list.ora.com +---------------------------------------------+