Bug #13371: PHP Crashes with weird output sometimes

From: jlp@parodius.com Operating system: Windows XP Professional PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: IIS related Bug description: PHP Crashes with weird output sometimes I recently installed PHP 4 on Windows XP with IIS 5... I coded the following script: <?php $temp="$SERVER_SOFTWARE"; ?> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Testing</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <p> the var is: <? echo $temp ?>! </BODY> </HTML> I tried to run this and it just stalled (kept trying to load the page), no server error or anything. I clicked "stop" in IE and tried to reload, same thing. I modified the php source and changed $SERVER_SOFTWARE to aaaaa. Then when I reloaded the php script, it gave me this: the var is: aaaaa! HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:34:24 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 44 -2147417842 (0x8001010e) all on 1 line. Sometimes, I reload the page and it works fully. But it never works only in certain circumstances (like in the script above. Seems that it only works if I have a minimal amount of scripting before the HTML output on the top of the PHP file script. Weird. -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13371&edit=1