Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Weird Character Garbage Installation Problem

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This looks like the compression problem.

>From a note I sent to a friend:

        It turns out the issue was not (only at least) gdbm, but
        compression on
        the outgoing side. 

        By editing lib/Request.php, by commenting the lines out, I got
        rid of
        that garbage out problem.

I sent that n October.  I think if you search the archives back then,
you will see it.

Found it in version (1.3.2-jeffs-hacks):

     114     function compress_output() {
     115         //if (function_exists('ob_gzhandler')) {
     116             //ob_start('ob_gzhandler');
     117             //$this->_is_compressing_output = true;
     118         //}
     119     }

I think this broke when PHP was upgraded.

But I do not use that version any more (at least there).

In a newer version (1.3.5pre) I see the file is greatly changed:
   285     function buffer_output($compress = true) {
     286         if (defined('COMPRESS_OUTPUT')) {
     287             if (!COMPRESS_OUTPUT)
     288                 $compress = false;
     289         }
     290         elseif (!function_exists('version_compare')
     291                 || version_compare(phpversion(), '4.2.3', "<"))
{
     292             $compress = false;
     293         }
     294 
     295         if (!function_exists('ob_gzhandler'))
     296             $compress = false;
     297         

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 01:41, Shimmie wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I've installed everything ok... but when I hit the main page,
> everything comes out in garbled characters.
>  
> Have a look at: http://www.scrapegoat.com/wiki/index.php
> Mozilla shows the characters, but IE 6 won't have a bar of it (throws
> an error message).
>  
> Php seems to be installed correctly because I can run other scripts
> just fine (including pMachine).
>  
> I've got:
>  
>     php4.3.2RC4
>     FreeBSD: 5.1 RELEASE
>     Apache2.0.46
>     phpwiki 1.3.7
>  
> If I telnet directly to the port and request the file (GET
> /wiki/index.php http/1.0), it works a dream and I get:
>  
> crunch# telnet localhost 80
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> get /wiki/index.php http/1.0
>  
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:25:32 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) PHP/4.3.2RC4
> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2RC4
> Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=3a5c3e8ce10cf1d6936df82bcb6139c3; path=/
> ETag: W/"ff3e6697e7a18b7cc5c8322fc05c1947"
> Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 06:11:36 GMT
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Expires: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:25:14 GMT
> Vary: Cookie
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>  
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <!-- Begin head -->
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
> charset=iso-8859-1" />
> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
> <meta name="keywords" content="Home Page, ShimmieWiki" />
> ...
> ...
>  
>  
> Please help,
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Simon.
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