Re: ob_start changed from php4 to php5?

Hello!

I'm also guessing that it's the LAST line of the file with the "encodeDomain" function in it that you "include" in your test.php I'm also guessing that there's a NEWLINE character after the final ?> in that file on your 5.0.4 box, but that NEWLINE character is *NOT* there on your 4.0 box.

No, there are no newlines at the end of any files. The problem was a new behavior of system() in PHP5: "The system() call also tries to automatically flush the web server's output buffer after each line of output if PHP is running as a server module." Obviously system() in PHP5 tries to flush, but because it's wrapped in ob_start() end ob_end_clean(), it's doesn't actually do. Unfortunately an interal flag in PHP is set to "output has been sent" anyway (bug?). I first changed it to passthru() instead of system(), but maybe I should use shell_exec() in the future. Regards Marten