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My universal document converter guessed 'text/plain' for a virus and returned the source code

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Built a single endpoint that sniffs file type from magic bytes and routes to the right converter — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, HTML, plain text. Clean architecture, one URL, no client-side branching. Then a .js file came in. My sniffer saw ASCII, said text/plain , and returned the raw source as Ma…

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  1. 2026-10-13 03:04 · DEV Community — AI
    My universal document converter guessed 'text/plain' for a virus and returned the source code

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