Bug #14872 Updated: Garbage being returned when displaying contents of a url
ID: 14872
User updated by: webmaster@ski-info-online.com
Reported By: webmaster@ski-info-online.com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Sockets related
Operating System: RedHat Linux
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:
Steve,
Thanks for the clarification.
I posted this question in a number of forums, including, devsheds,
phpbuilder, htmlforums, php-general@lists.php.net and it would appear
that many of us do not understand the intricacies of HTTP 1.1 and HTTP
1.0 as no one appeared to be able to identify the cause.
Apologies if this request wasted your time.
Previous Comments:
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[2002-01-05 11:59:39] hholzgra@php.net
Steve Meyers wrote:
The performance loss is also due to using HTTP/1.1,
which defaults to having keepalive on.
Until you tell it to close the connection or it times
out (about 2 seconds), it will keep it open.
Switching to HTTP/1.0 fixes both issues.
status changed to bogus as both issues
where related to misunderstanding of HTTP
concepts and not at all a PHP problem
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[2002-01-05 09:55:16] hholzgra@php.net
i don't know about the performance loss
but the hex numbers you get are just what
you requested
by sending a HTTP/1.1 request you have
declared that you are willing to 'speak'
HTTP/1.1, and the HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616,
Section 3.6 defines:
[...]
All HTTP/1.1 applications MUST be able to receive
and decode the "chunked" transfer-coding,
[...]
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6
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[2002-01-05 09:14:06] webmaster@ski-info-online.com
What should happen:
==================
The script is meant to create a printer-friendly version of a ski resort
review page that is produced dynamically. It does this by opening a
socket connection to the url, including the query, and read the contents
of that url line by line looking for <!-- START CONTENTS --> and <!--
END CONTENTS --> tags. It echoes whatever is between those tags.
What does happen:
================
The script works except for two issues.
1) In between some of the paragraphs of text some garbage hex numbers
appear. They are always in the same place and the first two bytes are
always the same.
2) The script runs extremely slowly which is attributed completely to
the fsockopen() function.
It should be noted that by simply replacing the fsockopen with fopen()
the problems disappeared without any other changes to the code.
Extraction from the Script that fails:
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<?
<snip>
$fp=fsockopen($myServer,80,&$errno,&$errstr,30);
$request = "GET $document"."?"."$query"." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$request .= "Host: $myServer\r\n\r\n";
if(!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n";
} else {
fputs($fp,$request);
$content=0;
$in_title=0;
?>
</snip>
<snip>
<?
while(!feof($fp)) {
$line=fgets($fp,4096);
if(ereg($START_CONT,$line)) {
$content=1;
}
if(ereg($END_CONT,$line)) $content=0;
if($content==1)echo $line;
}
fclose($fp);
?>
Extraction from working script:
==============================
<snip>
<?
$fp=fopen($myURL,r); //in place of fsockopen()
// $request lines no longer required, removed.
?>
</snip>
Useful Links:
============
Full text of script with problem:
www.ski-info-online.com/php-report/print-fails.txt
Full test of script which works:
www.ski-info-online.com/php-report/print-works.txt
See working solution (click "printer-friendly version"):
www.ski-info-online.com/skiResort-print1.php?id=Alpbach
See problem (click "printer-friendly version"):
www.ski-info-online.com/skiResort-fail.php?id=Alpbach
Thanks
Torrent
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