Php - CGI Error

**thesquirrel16** · 05-18-2007, 07:33 PM

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Hi, ok so I have seen a lot of forums with this error and can't seem to find one that has a solution to it. Anyhow I came up with a simple example of a site that would trigger this error.

There error itself is: The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

The site where you can find this is error
(if this goes straight to the error open the page in IE)
here is the code I used.

Code:


<!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">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>error</title>

<script type="text/JavaScript">

<!--

function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0

  eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'");

  if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0;

}

//-->

</script>

</head>



<body>

This is a simple example of the

<h1>CGI Error</h1>

<p>The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.  The headers it did return are:</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p><?php

    $thecat=$_GET['cat'];

    if($thecat == ""){$thecat = 'Select Category';}



?>

<form name="form1" id="form1">

  <select name="menu1" onchange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)">

    <option value="/error.php?cat=One">One</option>

    <option value="/error.php?cat=Two">Two</option>

    <option selected="selected"><?php echo $thecat ?></option>

  </select>

</form>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

</body>

</html>

I believe this has something to do with getting the value from the URL. Anyone know how to fix this problem?

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**John** · 05-19-2007, 03:09 PM

I'm not really sure how this replicates the error. It always displays the error message because it is statically coded into the html. Unless I'm missing something?

I just did a quick google on the error message and it seems like a bug. Have a look here, this may be of help.
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25863