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Bug #2968 white space in document before setcookie() is called ruins chance to setcookie
Submitted: 1999-12-13 14:19 UTC Modified: 1999-12-13 14:43 UTC
From: sladd at mail dot rit dot edu Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Parser error
PHP Version: 3.0.12 OS: Linux 2.2.13
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [1999-12-13 14:19 UTC] sladd at mail dot rit dot edu 
I don't think this is the way it is supposed to be.

If there is white space before a setcookie() call, even if no text is sent, setcookie fails because it was thinking that text has been sent.

More exactly, if we have this (the dashes indicate begining of file)

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<?php include("include.inc"); ?>

<?php setcookie("test", "test", time()+60); ?>
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will FAIL, even though inside my include.inc I have no text being printed out.  The following DOES work.

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<?php include("include.inc"); ?>
<?php setcookie("test", "test", time()+60); ?>
-------------------------------------

Notice how there is no space after the include.  The whitespace outside of the <?php ?> tags seems to matter.  This is not clearly defined in the documentation, and I believe it's a bug.

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 [1999-12-13 14:43 UTC] joey at cvs dot php dot net 
This /IS/ the way it is supposed to be. Please see:
http://www.php.net/manual/function.setcookie.php3

In short, /ANY/ whitespace is considered "text to be sent".
 
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