A contract.pdf that was secretly a DOCX broke my file-type auto-detection
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When my PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and EPUB converters ran as separate endpoints, agents kept picking the wrong one. A universal "send anything, we'll figure out the type" endpoint was the obvious fix. My first detection logic: file extension first, Content-Type header as backup. It survived about a day…
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- 2026-10-11 00:06 · DEV Community — AI
A contract.pdf that was secretly a DOCX broke my file-type auto-detection