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[resolved] Strange chars before <HTML> and after </HTML> (13 posts)

  1. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Hi

    I have upgraded my php version to 5.2.1-r3 (gentoo) today, and since then I notice some strange effect on my blog. Please see for yourself: http://problemlos.ch/wp/

    You will notice the first few characters on the page, like 94af, or 38b2 or similar. They even show up BEFORE the <HTML> tag! Weird, eh? And on the end of the page, a 0 shows up, after </HTML>.

    Do be honest, I'm stuck. I tried to find the way WP renders its pages, but didn't really find where these chars are being inserted. I have deactivated all plugins and changed the theme to the default - no change. I even followed the upgrade steps once again, to ensure that I haven't accidentially changed some file - no change here, too.

    Any hints appreciated :-(

    Cheers

    André

  2. Otto
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Plugins can do this sort of thing. You might consider deactivating them one-by-one and seeing if there's any change.

  3. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I have deactivated all of them, it didn't change the headers & trailers.

  4. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I have now even renamed the plugins dir to make sure they're not being found. Same problem, still.

    Any other ideas? Stuck ...

  5. vkaryl
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    There's some other threads here about similar stuff, see if you can get search to work for you, look for "strange numbers" or some such.... Oh wait, I posted in one of them let me look in profile to see if I can find it. I'll post back in a bit.

    Here's that one:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/108436?replies=14

  6. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Thanks for that one, vkaryl, but unfortunately it didn't help. No proxy here.

    There's no problem with the admin interface, and another blog (http://problemlos.ch/segelblog/) doesn't show this problem (although it's another wp version)

  7. Otto
    Tech Ninja
    Posted 5 years ago #

    AndreBonhote: I don't see any numbers on your page. There are also no numbers in the source of the page. Maybe it's something specific to your machine?

  8. doodlebee
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I don't see them, either. I've checked in Firefox 2.0, IE7, Opera 9 and IE6. Not a single "weird thing" to be seen.

  9. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Ok, it's really, really, very, very strange ... using IE, I don't see it, Safari doesn't show it. FF 2.0.2 shows it on all platforms I use (OS X and Win). Text mode browser "lynx" shows it, text mode browser "links" doesn't, on both Linux and Mac OS X.

    Some screenshots:

    Firefox 2.0.2 OS X
    Lynx under Linux

    I am really at the end of my wits.

    Btw, the guy in the other thread didn't fix this too:

    http://gmgene-alpha.ifastnet.com/wordpress/

  10. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I tried a fresh wp installation and didn't see the same thing occur. I compared all the php and js files using diff, and there's no difference at all.

    I am suspecting some hidden setting in the database to be guilty.

    Are there any wp-devs around? *wavehands*

  11. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Another thing: The "bug" (as I call it) shows up in the preview window of the edit page, too ...

  12. npessoa
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I was wondering something along the same lines - except I was getting strange numbers in the URL, not the actual page source.

    I tried to access the test blog I've set up at:

    http://www.seimone.com/wp

    and for some reason it loaded:
    http://www.seimone.com/wp/?47ac2658

    NO IDEA where those numbers come from. The front page DID load, but the random numbers scared me a bit.

  13. AndreBonhote
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    fixed. downgraded to PHP 5.1.6-pl11

    Don't know what it was, but it sucked ...

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