Re: getting php to generate a 503

dnwo@xtra.co.nz wrote:

I want to write a php page that can return a 503 with some useful information. <?php header("HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable"); echo "Page execution failed.\n"; ?> Is what I've done so far - yet it doesn't work, the headers don't seem to be modified and my page just returns the echoed contet and both firefox and IE blithely ignore the fact that I set the server unavailable header :( can anyone give me a clue as to what I've done wrong?

What did you expect to happen? The expected behaviour (unless I'm missing something) is that the browser should display the content (i.e. "Page execution failed") that you sent to it. The 503 status is a signal to the browser, and I don't believe either Firefox or IE pass that signal on. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene Freelance web developer http://jasper.bryant-greene.name/