About headers

[neville]

This is the code:
<?header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm='Test Authentication System'");
header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
exit;
?>

This is the Error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

The log file showed:

malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized: c:/php4/php.exe

Is there anything wrong in the script

[[deleted]]

The error should be a hint:

malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized:

So I guess you have malformed headers. :-)

try reading the annotated manual about the header statement:

http://www.php.net/manual/function.header.php

[neville]

I know the headers were getting malformed however what I wanted was a fix so I tried this
header('status: 401 Unauthorized');

and it worked, instead of the previous
header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");

I'm new to web technologies so can you point me to any place where I can read all about headers in a fairly simple language.

Thanks again

[Anon]

I've got the same problem, you can't send a "HTTP/1.0 Status Message" header with the CGI version of PHP (at least under Windows); it would work with a module version. Don't ask me why, I don't know, I think it's a bug.