Posted by lawrence k on 06/24/06 23:47

Gordon Burditt wrote:
> >> >But as I said earlier in the thread, PHP is giving me bum messages that
> >> >offer no illumination.
> >>
> >> They are telling you where the problem is. White space is a common,
> >> and difficult to find, but not the only cause of headers being sent.
> >
> >I think you are right, they are telling me where the problem is. I now
> >suspect the error was being triggered when this class method (which
> >sends a charset header) was called:
>
> The combination of header(), which sends a header,
> and ob_end_flush(), which forces the output, means you can't
> call session_start() after this function gets called.

Thanks much. I think you found the problem. My understanding of headers
is shamefully weak. if I wanted to read up on how the headers work,
would I read up on the http protocol or the IP protocol? I'm afraid
right now I'm not even sure what category of information it is that I'm
lacking.

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