#27345 [NEW]: Status header with PHP CGI

From: php_bugs at ecora dot de Operating system: PHP version: Irrelevant PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Status header with PHP CGI Description: ------------ Hi, <Documentation> header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); [...] Note: In PHP 3, this only works when PHP is compiled as an Apache module. You can achieve the same effect using the Status header. header("Status: 404 Not Found"); </Documentation> IMHO this is not correct. Because the HTTP-status-header (also Content-Type- and Location-Header) is always a server parsed header, when PHP (PHP3, PHP4, PHP5 or also Perl or Python, ...) runs via CGI. The official CGI Specification (see http://www.w3.org/CGI/): http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/out.html That means not only in PHP3 also in PHP4 or PHP5: When PHP runs via CGI, then you have to write: header("Status: 404 Not Found"); instead of header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); Reproduce code: --------------- When i try to send a header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); on my installation (Apache 1.3.29 + PHP 4.2.3 CGI on Linux) then i receive a 500 internal server error -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27345&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=27345&r=float