missing charset or bung server settings?

**Pedro Graca** · Jul 17 '05, 09:40 AM

Re: missing charset or bung server settings?

bobs wrote:
<snip>[color=blue]
> I'm thinking it has somthing to do with the lack of charset in Ex2..
> perhaps. If that is the case can I specify it in the .htaccess file
> because I dont have direct control over the production server. Has any
> one seen this before?[/color]
<snip>

Don't know if it helps, but you can try header() in the PHP script.

PHP: header - Manual

http://www.php.net/header

Send a raw HTTP header

header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1');
/* Why text/html? ^^^^^^^^ */

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**Andy Hassall** · Jul 17 '05, 09:40 AM

Re: missing charset or bung server settings?

On 21 Nov 2004 06:10:39 -0800, bobason456@hotm ail.com (bobs) wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hello, I was wondering if some one could take a look at the two
>example server outputs below, and help me understand what is wrong.
>I'm getting garbled characters.
>
>The php script I'm developing delivers XML to a client side
>application I'm also putting together in VB.NET .. Example 1 is my
>development PC.. It has a recent build of PDP & Apache. This output is
>good.
>
>Example 2 is the production server and is adding all sorts of strange
>characters, that are causing the XML to be invalid.
>
>I'm thinking it has somthing to do with the lack of charset in Ex2..
>perhaps. If that is the case can I specify it in the .htaccess file
>because I dont have direct control over the production server. Has any
>one seen this before?[/color]

Both outputs look similar to me. They're chunked transfer-encoded. If you're
using the output directly, your client is broken, as it's not decoding the
chunks, which IIRC is a required capability of any HTTP/1.1 client.

HTTP/1.1: Protocol Parameters

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1

[color=blue]
>******** EXAMPLE 1 *************
>
>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:34:20 GMT
>Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Win32)
>X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.2
>Connection: close
>Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>fcc[/color]

Chunk size here. Indicates it's 4,044 bytes long. Presumably this covers the
entire document in one chunk.
[color=blue]
>o;?<app><name> eek</name><author>Me </author><version >0.1</version><contac t>me@.com</contact></app><link
>...
>
>
>******** EXAMPLE 2 *************
>
>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:48:28 GMT
>Server: Apache
>X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
>Connection: close
>Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>Content-Type: text/html
>
>8d[/color]

Chunk #1, 0x8d = 141 bytes.
[color=blue]
>o;?<app><name> eek</name><author>Me </author><version >0.1</version><contac t>Me@.com</contact></app>[/color]

Data for chunk #1.
[color=blue]
>2e[/color]
Chunk #2, 0x2e = 30 bytes.
[color=blue]
><link src="example" rank="1" type="se">[/color]

Data for chunk #2.
[color=blue]
>1f
><url>http://www.petz.com/</url>
>1b
><title>Petz Central</title>
>c5[/color]

And so on...

If your client can't handle this, perhaps it should be making HTTP/1.0
requests.

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