Nginx and php header + flush

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Hello guys,
I’ve got strange problem with my webserver. I’ve got nginx and apache
with php as backend www server, and now when I tryin to run this code
→

<?php header('HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found'); echo "sometext"; flush(); ?>

( it’s on apache )

nginx returns something like this →

8 sometext 0

As you can see it’s returns some numbers, but why ? When I’m openning
same script directly from apache it’s returns only “sometext” without
any numbers.

Do you have any idea why nginx returns this numbers ?

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Hello!

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 07:50:32AM -0400, ykse wrote:

?>
same script directly from apache it’s returns only “sometext” without
any numbers.

Do you have any idea why nginx returns this numbers ?

These numbers are from chunked encoding incorrectly sent by apache
to nginx. This behaviour is the result of a bug in apache’s
mod_php which forces HTTP/1.1 reply despite the fact client
(nginx) uses HTTP/1.0 in request.

To fix this, just change

header('HTTP/1.1 ...');

to

header('HTTP/1.0 ...');

in your php code, or use “SetEnv downgrade-1.0” in apache config
as a workaround if changing code is problematic for some reason.
See [1] for more information.

[1] twice chunked

Maxim D.

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Maxim, now it’s works fine!

Thanks a lot!

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