• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOP
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    22 days ago

    Yeah wtf. The upload on catbox is a normal jpg file, but it nets a link to a bin. Something is going wrong there. Wierd.

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      22 days ago

      Catbox (as far as I have observed it) deduplicates by hash. So when the same file (contentwise, the name is ignored) is uploaded, then it will not store it and simply return the link of the first upload. A (not duplicate) upload saves the filename and type.

      So I think what happened here is that someone in the past uploaded the image, but their file ended with .bin. So Catbox gave you that link which serves the file with metainfo that the name is <something>.bin.
      (I can check it if you want if you send me the old link.)