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@ivo95v ivo95v commented May 7, 2025

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Branch? 7.3
Bug fix? no
New feature? no
Deprecations? no
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License MIT

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When Symfony attempts to send HTTP headers via the sendHeaders() method, it silently aborts if headers have already been sent (e.g., due to whitespace before the <?php tag). I spent an entire day debugging this issue and discovered that the problem was caused by an unintended whitespace before a PHP opening tag. To avoid this kind of silent failure and make future debugging easier, I decided to add an error log.

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@ivo95v ivo95v changed the title added error log to symfony Response sendHeaders [HttpFoundation][Response]added error log to symfony Response sendHeaders May 7, 2025
@ivo95v ivo95v changed the title [HttpFoundation][Response]added error log to symfony Response sendHeaders [HttpFoundation][Response] added error log to symfony Response sendHeaders May 7, 2025
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I doubt calling error_log is fine: we should use the logger infrastructure instead.
But Response is not a service, it doesn't fit.
Then, I'm wondering which service could be responsible for doing this check and logging the issue.
Maybe ErrorListener since it already has a logger injected? Any other idea?

@OskarStark OskarStark changed the title [HttpFoundation][Response] added error log to symfony Response sendHeaders [HttpFoundation][Response] added error log to Response::sendHeaders() May 9, 2025
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nicolas-grekas commented May 9, 2025

I guess that's a possiblity that would work:
instead of the added line, we'd just do
header(\sprintf('HTTP/%s %s %s', $this->version, $statusCode, $this->statusText), true, $statusCode); and let PHP generate the proper warning.

@ivo95v up to update your PR?
Please mind the code style, indentation is broken at the moment.

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ivo95v commented May 9, 2025

thank you @nicolas-grekas, sending header instead of error_log is a good idea. I just update the PR

@carsonbot carsonbot changed the title [HttpFoundation][Response] added error log to Response::sendHeaders() [HttpFoundation] [Response] added error log to Response::sendHeaders() May 10, 2025
@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas changed the title [HttpFoundation] [Response] added error log to Response::sendHeaders() [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when Response::sendHeaders() while output has already been sent May 10, 2025
@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas force-pushed the fix-missing-error-log branch from 6359c43 to a69cf15 Compare May 10, 2025 08:44
@nicolas-grekas nicolas-grekas changed the title [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when Response::sendHeaders() while output has already been sent [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when Response::sendHeaders() is called while output has already been sent May 10, 2025
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fabpot commented May 10, 2025

Thank you @ivo95v.

@fabpot fabpot merged commit cf554e1 into symfony:7.3 May 10, 2025
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Hi, I think this PR now affecting stream response, it will keep on triggering "Cannot modify header information" error such as livewire/livewire#9357

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Can you please open a new issue to kept he conversation there? Thanks

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Can you please open a new issue to kept he conversation there? Thanks

Just opened #60603, thanks

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jase-languasco commented May 31, 2025

🤦 I'm also not able to upgrade to 7.3 because of this change. If I comment out the header function call my application works fine. There could be plenty of situations where headers have been sent on purpose at this point, so I would expect the early return of the object and not additional headers trying to be set forcing an error.

Reading the initial issue, this seems extreme for an accident white space. That is not the only scenario in which headers have been sent at this point. I would instead recommend some static analysis on your project.

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@jase-languasco found any workaround for this issue ?

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@instashop-dev I'm forced to specify the version before in composer.json. I won't be able to upgrade to this version.

nicolas-grekas added a commit to nicolas-grekas/symfony that referenced this pull request Jun 23, 2025
…esponse::sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent (ivo95v)"

This reverts commit cf554e1, reversing
changes made to 392d0c9.
nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 23, 2025
…:sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent" (nicolas-grekas)

This PR was merged into the 7.3 branch.

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[HttpFoundation] Revert " Emit PHP warning when `Response::sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent"

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Branch?       | 7.3
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| Deprecations? | no
| Issues        | Fix #60603
| License       | MIT

This reverts commit cf554e1, reversing changes made to 392d0c9.

Let's revert as this change is too disruptive for a minor version (and I'm also going to replace this by a deprecation on 7.4 so that we can throw the warning in 8.0)

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51985c9 Revert "minor #60377 [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when `Response::sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent (ivo95v)"
nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 23, 2025
* 7.3:
  Revert "minor #60377 [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when `Response::sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent (ivo95v)"
  [Validator] Add missing HasNamedArguments to some constraints
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The change has been reverted in #60875 but will be reintroduced in Symfony 8.0 after #60876 which is deprecating the behavior.

nicolas-grekas added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 23, 2025
* 7.4:
  [HttpFoundation] Deprecate using `Request::sendHeaders()` after headers have already been sent
  Revert "minor #60377 [HttpFoundation] Emit PHP warning when `Response::sendHeaders()` is called while output has already been sent (ivo95v)"
  [Validator] Add missing HasNamedArguments to some constraints
  [Serializer] Remove unused variable
  Add support for Invokable Commands in CommandTester
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