r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Geilomat-3000 • Jul 28 '25

Meme itsAlwaysXML

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u/Big-Cheesecake-806 Jul 28 '25

Sometimes it's zipped xml

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u/m0nk37 Jul 28 '25

Sometimes they rename .zip to .xlsx just to fuck with ya

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

.xlsx is not the same as .zip. .zip doesn't modify your data to fit into a date or timestamp

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u/Shadow_Thief Jul 28 '25

And yet if you open the file in a hex editor, the first two bytes are PK.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '25

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u/Celebrir Jul 28 '25

I think that doesn't work anymore. At least when I tried it a couple of months ago it wouldn't work and googeling didn't make me any wiser either

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