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minus-squaretweeks@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoSounds like the file type verification on WhatsApp is not on mime-type but only on extension. Some receivers might have trouble opening these though.
minus-squareFuzzChef@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoIn my experience, WhatsApp does not send an image unchanged. So it doesn’t matter if the recipient can handle it, as long as WhatsApp’s conversion can
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThey might use standard imagemagick or such on the backend meaning they can ingest pretty much any image format ever invented, and have a limited set of extensions allowed on the frontend side so people don’t upload .txts.
minus-squareGakomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoWell so far I did not encounter any issues so as long as it works I’ll still do it like this
Sounds like the file type verification on WhatsApp is not on mime-type but only on extension. Some receivers might have trouble opening these though.
In my experience, WhatsApp does not send an image unchanged. So it doesn’t matter if the recipient can handle it, as long as WhatsApp’s conversion can
They might use standard imagemagick or such on the backend meaning they can ingest pretty much any image format ever invented, and have a limited set of extensions allowed on the frontend side so people don’t upload
.txts.Well so far I did not encounter any issues so as long as it works I’ll still do it like this