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Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5.3.8
Package:          CGI/CLI related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:header() / setcookie() / session_start() give bogus warning

Description:
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SAPIs that do not support HTTP header(s), give warnings that output has
been already sent like

"Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by..."

even those APIs do *not* support headers.

There is no use to warn about something that can never happen; There is
nothing to modify; There are no headers that already have been sent.

It might make more sense to warn that this function is useless w/o HTTP
response headers being available.

Compare with headers_sent(), it does differ between SAPIs.

Would be nice to have this a bit more streamlined.

Additionally header() could return FALSE if it failed like setcookie().

Test script:
---------------
In CLI:

<?php
echo "output";
session_start();
setcookie("TestCookie", 'value');
header('X-TestHeader: value');
?>


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Fixed in SVN:                        
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Fixed in SVN and need be documented: 
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Fixed in release:                    
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Need Reproduce Script:               
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Not developer issue:                 
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Expected behavior:                   
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Not enough info:                     
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Submitted twice:                     
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register_globals:                    
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PHP 4 support discontinued:          
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Daylight Savings:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=55850&r=dst
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No Zend Extensions:                  
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MySQL Configuration Error:           
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