RE: [PHP] Mixing PHP3 & SSI

> > If readfile is indeed that "broken", maybe we can talk the > > powers that be into dumping full HTTP headers through the > > readfile call in a future version.... I mean, the main > > script has it already from when it was called... so it > > should be able to sub-call pages in that same context. > > readfile() is not broken at all. "broken" was in quotes for a reason... yes, it works the way the docs say - but it doesnt work well enough in light of the fact that virtual gives me garbage. If I do a browser based connect to that SHTML file, I'll get a IE based response when I use IE, and a Netscape response when I use Netscape. If I do a readfile() request to that SHTML file through PHP3.0.15, I ALWAYS get a Netscape based response, even when the calling PHP3 knows that it was called from an IE browser. This is no doubt due to the HTTP 1.0 connection used (To quote the online PHP manual:) If filename begins with "http://" (not case sensitive), an HTTP 1.0 connection is opened to the specified server and the text of the response is written to standard output. This is nice, and things like .CGI's and other scripts can be used this way - but not completely transparently as can be seen in my case (and this will of course fail when referencing a name-based host... something thats becoming more and more prevalent these days). But obviously it's not a FULL HTTP 1.0 connection - other wise it would have a User-Agent: line in the request header, wouldnt it? > It is silly to use readfile() to access the local server. > virtual() does that just fine. Having readfile() lie about > the browser type that it is and send along fake headers would > not be a good idea. If you want to do something like that use > fsockopen() and connect to port 80 of your server and send all > the fake headers you want. I tried virtual - but in doing so, I lost everything except what preceeded the virtual call (which is pretty much right at the top of the page, being as it calls the standard page headers/formatting). This made virtual useless to me, on my server (running php3.0.15 - maybe it works better under 4, but I dont have that option right now) Include doesnt work, as it doesnt process the SHTML, require also doesnt do what I need. Thus readfile() (even if it's not the best idea) actually worked better than any of the more desirable alternatives. So it looks like I will have to use the fsockopen() method - since the "non-broken" readfile() routine doesnt handle User-Agent properly.