i think there might be a bug in output buffering or mhash somewhere . . . in my error_log file there is getting to be a shitload of html from pages that are generated. some from scripts i made, others from squirrelmail and imp. it does not happen all the time, this probably occur's about 1 in 1000 pages served. there is no error before it, here is a small snippet from the error_log [Sat Feb 17 21:15:39 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) PHP/4.0.5-dev configured -- resuming normal operations <html> <head> <title>Music Video Generation</title> etc. my auto-prepend file is <?php $doGzip = isset($GLOBALS["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]) && eregi("gzip", $GLOBALS["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]); ob_start(); header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); // always modified header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1 header ("Pragma: no-cache"); // HTTP/1.0 ?> my auto-append file is <?php if (isset($doGzip) && $doGzip == '1') { function printBinaryInt($val) { return (chr($val & 0xFF) . chr(($val >> 8) & 0xFF) . chr(($val >> 16) & 0xFF) . chr($val >> 24)); } $content = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); # Convert HTML tags to uppercase // $content = preg_replace ("/(<\/?)(\w+)([^>]*>)/e", // "'\\1'.strtoupper('\\2').'\\3'", // $content); // $content = stripslashes($content); $send = substr(gzcompress($content, 9), 2, -4); header("Content-encoding: gzip"); header("Content-Length: " . (strlen($send) + 18)); print(chr(31) . chr(139) . chr(8) . chr(0) . printBinaryInt(time()) . chr(0) . chr(3) . $send . mhash(MHASH_CRC32B, $content) . printBinaryInt(strlen($content))); } ?> to see what the server is compiled up with check out http://tnt.dynomyte.net/ suggestions? Cameron -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]