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Secure file uploads

Practices for validating, transforming and publishing user-supplied files in web applications, including type detection, size limits and output verification.

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Express upload guide moves the GPS-tag check to the re-encoded file it publishes

Express image uploads should be re-encoded and the exact output parsed for seven GPS EXIF tags before a public URL is returned, a dev.to guide argues. That boundary costs quality and bandwidth, and the sample checks fewer location fields than the post's own rule lists.

Publishers:dev.to

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Hype gap+20
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