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[Russ Demarest]

I do something similar and have not noticed a problem. You may want  
to try passthru instead of readfile.

Hope it helps.

Russ

On Nov 30, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Mark Armendariz wrote:

> I have a hit counter script that I've been growing in the back yard  
> for a
> few months.  I decided to go back and water it today, just after  
> upgrading
> to the latest Firefox release (1.5) and while testing I noticed an  
> oddity...
>
> Now, the basics of how the script works.  You call count.php as an  
> image
> from your site (<img src="count.php" />), it adds the hit (and other
> wonderful data) to the db and then outputs a 1 px transparent gif.   
> There's
> more to it with js and all kinds of fun stuff, but that has NOTHING  
> to do
> with this particular problem...
>
> While testing other browsers (IE, FF 1.07, Opera, etc - all pc),  
> Everything
> was working great, but with firefox 1.5, I was getting 2 hits every  
> time.  I
> removed the image code, and It would hit once.  Put it back... Twice.
>
> I combed through my code, found nothing and decided, what the hell,  
> take my
> code out... And so here's what's left - nice and simple:
>
> --------------
> count.php
> --------------
> <?php
>     require_once 'function.file_put_contents.php';    // PHP5 magic  
> in good
> ol' 4
>     file_put_contents('./output.txt', date('m/d/Y G:i:s') . ': ' .
> $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . "\n");
>
>     header('Content-Type: image/gif');
>     header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename=count.gif');
>     readfile ('./count.gif');
> ?>
> --------------
>
> And when I load count.php into the browser, I get this:
> - the first one is FF 1.0.7
> - the second is IE whatever (latest from windows update)
> - the third and fourth are one load from FF 1.5
> - the 5th and 6th are a single refresh on FF 1.5
> --------------
> output.txt
> --------------
> 11/30/2005 15:26:46: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
> 11/30/2005 15:27:00: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT  
> 5.1; SV1;
> .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
> 11/30/2005 15:27:04: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en- 
> US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> 11/30/2005 15:27:04: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en- 
> US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> 11/30/2005 15:32:34: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en- 
> US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> 11/30/2005 15:32:35: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en- 
> US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> --------------
>
> So, since it's a brand new version of FF, and my test code's too  
> damned slim
> to find anything 'off', AND, with all other browsers I've tested -  
> getting
> one hit per load, I'm beginning to figure this to be a bug/feature  
> of the
> latest greatest FF.  But before I begin barking up that tree, I  
> wanted to
> ask the local gurus if my headers are whacky (I've tried a few  
> combos, this
> one's just the shortest - and the original, which I've had for  
> months), or
> if for some reason browsers are supposed to do this and they all just
> haven't been.
>
> In the end, I figure I'll have to try caching the image for a  
> second or two
> and hopefully that'll calm FF's load-crazy ways.  But oh how wrong  
> it would
> feel to do so.
>
> Happy belated Turkeys...
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Mark Armendariz
>
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