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[-] Gakomi@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

Just change the extension to PNG

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 4 months ago

Do people really think this changes the file type?

[-] Gakomi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

No I don't think it does but it works. Specifically I download webp pictures on pc and when I try to send them on WhatsApp it does not recognise them so I change the extension to JPG or PNG and it works it sends them and they can be viewed.

[-] tweeks@feddit.nl 8 points 4 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 points 4 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 points 4 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 points 4 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

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