Re: Weird/inconsistent behaviour when sending an empty file? (WAMP, Apache2, PHP 4.2.0)

On 28 Apr 2002 at 17:54, Moritz Schallaboeck wrote: > it might very well be an ignorant oversight, but I can't explain the following > behaviour. Consider a file containing -only- this code: > > -snip- > <? > > ?> > -snip- [etc] Just a personal opinion here... if you're sending output to a browser that is not formatted as a valid web page then you can't rely on what will work, or not work, for any given browser. IE in particular is very good at "fixing" broken html as it loads a page and this can hide otherwise serious problems with html. If you're going to output something to a browser then you _really_ should make sure it's valid html. At the very least that would mean including: <html> <head></head> <body></body> </html> in a page. What you do after that is up to you. At least if you include that much you'll get a valid web page and pretty much every browser will no what to do with it. CYA, Dave