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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #16306, comment 3


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01/20/2011 02:39:40 PM (14 years ago)
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  • Ticket #16306, comment 3

    initial v1  
    1 For some reason, there are a quite a few plugins that output white space which breaks xml parsing in all browsers.  I keep coming across this problem in both ms-files.php and now the send method of the WP_Ajax_Response class so I just added ob_clean to the method in order to prevent plugins from being able to inadvertently break functionality in wordpress.  I read up on ticket #14730 and I understand the viewpoint that ob_clean should not be used to cover the mistakes of plugin authors.  However, finding unnecessary output in a plugin and contacting the author every time I come across this issue (which seems to happen often) seems counter-productive when users can be protected from such mistakes with a one-liner.
     1For some reason, there are a quite a few plugins that output white space which breaks xml parsing in all browsers or breaks file output.  I keep coming across this problem in both ms-files.php and now the send method of the WP_Ajax_Response class so I just added ob_clean to the method in order to prevent plugins from being able to inadvertently break functionality in wordpress.  I read up on ticket #14730 and I understand the viewpoint that ob_clean should not be used to cover the mistakes of plugin authors.  However, finding unnecessary output in a plugin and contacting the author every time I come across this issue (which seems to happen often) seems counter-productive when users can be protected from such mistakes with a one-liner.