Bug #8744 Updated: call to header() causes CGI error

ID: 8744 Updated by: lobbin Reported By: emily@crytech.com Old Status: Open Status: Feedback Bug Type: IIS related Operating System: Windows 2000 PHP Version: 4.0.4pl1 New Comment: How does this work on 4.1.1? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-02-12 17:30:21] phanto@php.net i have the same problem here. when i turn on the log startup errors flag in the php.ini i get the following output : ______________ CGI Error The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are: FATAL: erealloc(): Unable to allocate 1043162510 bytes ______________ i guess there's something wrong within the parser or compiler, because nothing of the code is executed. unfortunatelly i don't have 1GB RAM so i would be happy if there is any solution to this. harald. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-16 18:30:59] emily@crytech.com In case you missed my second message: Here are two typical lines from the IIS error log: the first is a successful page load (code 200) and the second is the CGI error after the redirect (502) Note that in the IIS log format it is normal for a space to separate the URL and the Querystring. The last column in the log is the referrer URL. 2001-01-16 17:20:30 192.168.1.29 - GET /success/ProbRev.php3 EmpID=5&New=Y 200 0 378 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.5;+Windows+98;+Win+9x+4.90) http://192.168.1.30/success/InterimRevSelect.php3?EmpID=5 2001-01-16 17:20:30 192.168.1.29 - GET /success/ProbRev.php3 EmpID=5&ProbRevID=12 502 0 374 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.5;+Windows+98;+Win+9x+4.90) http://192.168.1.30/success/InterimRevSelect.php3?EmpID=5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-16 18:29:28] emily@crytech.com A few more things: the problem is not easily reproducible. Also, if I change all of the database calls to go to mySQL (which I have installed on Windows 2000) instead of SQL Server 2000 (which is the database system I was using, also installed on the same machine), I do NOT get the CGI errors. However, in both instances, the databases do get updated or otherwise manipulated successfully; it's just the redirect that fails when using SQL Server. Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-16 14:12:01] derick@php.net Can you tell us what is in the logs of IIS? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-01-16 14:07:45] emily@crytech.com Our situation is similar to that in bug report 8571, particularly situations 1 and 2. After adding, updating or deleting a record to a MSSQL database, the user is referred to this function (stored in file which is included in each page): function pageRedirect($inURL) { header("Location: $inURL"); exit; } $inURL is never exactly the same as the current URL - either you are redirected to a completely different file name, or to the same file name with a different query string appended. The record modification part always completes successfully in MSSQL, and the header() function sends the user to the new URL, but this error occurs: [start] CGI ERROR CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of headers. The headers that it did return are: [end] ... and any code in the page that the user has been redirected to is NOT executed. If the user clicks refresh, it does and all is well. This is a PHP web application being ported from a Linux/mySQL environment, where it works, so it appears to be an IIS-specific issue. Thanks in advance for any feedback. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=8744&edit=1