Re: Intermittently Occuring CGI Error Update and Info

Hi Flint, I know you asked me about this problem while I was in Denmark but I havent had any time to look into it yet. I'm planning on using some time on it this weekend and the following week so if you have a short php script I can use to reproduce this I might be able to help. I would say that you should only get CGI errors if the php process terminates before sending any output for some reson. - Frank > Hi All, > > I've been working, with others, and trying to figure out the error: > > CGI Error > > The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of > HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:. > > If you get the error consistently, i.e. everytime you try and load a page, > the cause is some type of permissions setting. See the install.txt in yor > PHP directory. MS also has a nice KB article at: > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q160/4/22.asp > > However, the problems gets way more interesting if your are running PHP in > CGI mode on IIS. You MAY get an intermittent CGI error similar to the one > above. An explanation of the problems, according to MS, can be found at: > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/02.ASP > > A supposed fix to the problem can be found at: > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q142/6/76.asp > > Now, the interesting part is that on my configuration (Win2K, PHP 4.0.6) the > fix is already completed as specified in the KB article, in fact, there is > an extra 512 at the end of the reg. key string they say you should edit. > Don't know why. Yet, I still get the CGI error intermittently. > > So, not knowing very much about programming, it seems that PHP isn't closing > correctly or something and after enough requests that run PHP and call a > desktop heap, Windows runs out of memory to create a new desktop heap. The > explanation at the MS KB is very consistent with what I am experiencing. > That articles is at: > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q156/4/84.asp > > My question to Phil, and Daniel, and the development team for PHP, and even > Frank is that do these behaviors jog anything in those brains of yours? I > guess I wanted to document everything as much as possible to help the > developers, and because I needed to prove to myself that I'm not crazy. > > It's obviously not PHP alone because I can sit at the console all day with > the php.exe -i command and not get an error. But the combination of > Header("Location: blah.html") with something (say the MS_SQL module the only > module running) causes Windows to run out of memory. > > I've since gone to the ISAPI module and although that fixes the CGI errors, > it seems to have a totally different set of problems (which I know it is > supposed to have). > > In any case, something changed somewhere (in a version of PHP or Windows) > because this problem never used to happen. I'm trying to back track and see > where it was last stable. > > Thanks everyone, and I hope this helps provide some insight to the problem. > > -Flint > > _________________________________________________ > Flint Doungchak, President > Net Solutions, LLC > 840 Lawrence Street > Eugene, OR 97401 > flint@netsolutionsllc.com > Voice +1 541 345-7087 > Fax +1 541 485-5519 > http://www.netsolutionsllc.com > > *************************************************************** > The contents of this transmission may be confidential in > nature and should be directed only to the person to whom it > is addressed. Do not read, copy, or disseminate this > material unless you are the intended recipient. If this > transmission reached you in error, please forward the e-mail > to the sender to advise, then destroy the transmission you > received. Thank you. > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >