Around line 35 is this code:
if (!empty($modSettings['enableCompressedOutput']))
{
ob_end_clean();
ob_end_clean();
ob_start('ob_sessrewrite');
$modSettings['enableCompressedOutput'] = '0';
}
There are two ob_end_clean(); statements and one needs to be removed. With the two there it causes a blank page.
yep. I'll fix it if I get home before anyone else comes online :P
Actually, this is not the case. The first one counters the session rewriting, and the second stops the gzipping. It then starts the session rewriting - as you can see, this is all to get rid of the gzipping.
Regardless, it doesn't matter - this is no longer in News.php because it's in SSI.php. And SSI.php doesn't use the gzipping system index.php does, so this code was removed.
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Well regardless, it caused a bug. Doesn't matter though now that it's out of there I suppose.