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		lifthrasiir on Oct 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length? Eventually people started omitting ?> at the very end, which is correct but also unsettling.

earthboundkid on Oct 7, 2024 | [–]

When I started my first job, I was like "Hey, these files don't have a closing ?>!!" and then my boss sighed.

gary_0 on Oct 7, 2024 | | [–]

It's even recommended in the PHP docs: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags....

stefs on Oct 7, 2024 | [–]

so irksome having to leave the tags unbalanced!

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