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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well so far I did not encounter any issues so as long as it works I'll still do it like this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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.