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BOMs can really drive you nuts!
In: Programming
14 Sep 2009A BOM is an acronym for byte-order mark and is essentially used to tell the type of encoding of a data stream or file without having to explicitly specify it (for instance, through the content-type header in HTTP response).
I’d been having a particular issue with an API I built for a web application I’m managing [...]
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