Re: Dreaded Premature end of script headers

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:48 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Geoff Shang <geoff@quitelikely.com> wrote: >> I put this into Google and got this: >> >> http://htmlfixit.com/cgi-tutes/tutorial_Common_Web_dev_error_messages_and_what_they_mean.php#premature > > > Yeah, I saw that too. I do know the mechanism that is happening. I > just can't figure out where the problem is without inserting print > statements. > >> Presumably, you are calling this cron job with some process which runs the >> PHP script through a URL on your webserver. > > Yes, that is correct. Using curl to launch the script via the web server. > >> 1.  Modify the script so that it does actually output something, thereby >> making the error go away. > > > When the script starts, it prints a banner with the script name and > date/time stamp. When it completes, it is supposed to print aggregate > results, time spent. I know it's encountering this problem before it > reaches the end as not all the data gets processed. I can't tell where > it is stopping though. If I put it in debug mode, it prints out a lot > of data from the beginning of the script, and never encounters this > problem. > >> 2.  Run the script directly with PHP instead of via your webserver.  E.g.: >> php -f <yourscriptname> > > The way the script is designed, it depends on some $_SERVER values, > which wouldn't be set if running directly from the shell. > Again, I want to say that this script does NOT fail in dev, test and stage, only production.