RE: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug?

I figured it out...wasn't a PHP thing at all but rather the Firefox addin to "view" response headers It was cheating and doing a GET to grab the headers instead of the cached POST output. Thanks for your help John, Eric -----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:42 AM To: Peters, Eric Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug? Peters, Eric wrote: > You have to look at the headers > > Exactly...submit the form and the HEADER version of the string returns "a:0:{}" > > But, a print() of the same string variable correctly returns > "a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}" > > Dig deeper into it :) Okay. Running 4.3.6 and 5.0.0, I see the following requests and responses. I even added a "X-CacheDebug-six" header that gets the actual value of the serialized $_POST... *** FIRST REQUEST TO test.php *** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://grape/test.php GET /test.php HTTP/1.1 Host: grape User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:36:43 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Win32) PHP/5.0.0 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0 X-CacheDebug-five: 7 X-CacheDebug-six: a:0:{} Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html ---------------------------------------------------------- So you can see how the correct length and value are sent in the headers. Printing $s2 (within the function) shows a:0:{} ---------------------------------------------------------- *** SECOND REQUEST (POST) TO test.php **** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://grape/test.php POST /test.php HTTP/1.1 Host: grape User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://grape/test.php Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 7 foo=bar HTTP/1.x 200 OK Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 18:36:57 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Win32) PHP/5.0.0 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0 X-CacheDebug-five: 27 X-CacheDebug-six: a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";} Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html ---------------------------------------------------------- Again, here you can see how the length and value are correct. If you're not seeing the same thing with 4.3.3, then upgrade. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals - www.phparch.com