• tweeks@feddit.nl
    8·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Gakomi@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

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

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 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.

    • FuzzChef@feddit.de
      1·
      5 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