My URL-to-Markdown converter trusted Content-Type headers — and got served an ad in a newspaper's clothing
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I run a URL-to-Markdown API that strips web pages down to their main content for RAG pipelines. Early on I made what felt like the obvious engineering call: trust the Content-Type header. If the server says text/html , parse it as HTML. If it says application/pdf , send it down the PDF path. Clean,…
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- 2026-10-20 15:03 · DEV Community — AI
My URL-to-Markdown converter trusted Content-Type headers — and got served an ad in a newspaper's clothing