{"id":306,"date":"2006-12-20T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/archives\/306"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:14:13","slug":"why-is-_server-considered-a-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/why-is-_server-considered-a-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is $_SERVER[] Considered a “Class?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a minor bug\/glitch in our Request_URI for Windows<\/a>\u00a0that we can’t figure out, so if anyone has any idea, please give us a holler<\/a>, or post below if you like. Under times of high load (and sometimes without), PHP completely crashes and dies until the worker process is restarted with Using $this not in object context<\/code> as the “die message” that shows up for all requests. However, our script doesn’t use<\/em> a class, and makes no calls to one either.<\/p>\n

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The actual line in question is<\/p>\n

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REQUEST_URI'])){<\/pre>\n
And there doesn’t seem to be any real reason for this to error out. isset<\/code> is a global function, and $_SERVER['HTTP_REQUEST_URI']<\/code> is a global variable. It’s an illogical error that shouldn’t happen; especially seeing as it will work for days on end, then suddenly die. The fact that it totally kills PHP on the server should be a clue that a bug is indeed present, but there’s a little problem: it’s not reproducible.<\/p>\n
If you can’t reproduce a bug and you’re not the developer, you might as well forget about getting it fixed. If it’s not reproducible, it’s unfixable. There’s a possibility however, that this is related to PHP Bug #39819<\/a> which discusses a segfault under NetBSD when this error occurs – but it’s not the same. A listing of all similar bugs<\/a>\u00a0doesn’t seem to turn anything up. We’re experiencing it on a Windows Server 2003 SP1 + IIS 6 + PHP 5.20, and have had reports from users on similar setups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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