Strange chars before <HTML> and after </HTML>

  • Resolved andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)


    17 years, 8 months 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: https://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

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

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

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

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

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

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

    Any other ideas? Stuck …

    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:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/108436?replies=14

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

    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 (https://problemlos.ch/segelblog/) doesn’t show this problem (although it’s another wp version)

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    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?

    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.

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

    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:

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

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

    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*

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

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

    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:

    https://www.seimone.com/wp

    and for some reason it loaded:
    https://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.

    Thread Starter andrebonhote

    (@andrebonhote)

    fixed. downgraded to PHP 5.1.6-pl11

    Don’t know what it was, but it sucked …

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