Full code for mora.stream, the "Twitch.tv for academic researchers". The streaming platform served several thousands of concurrent viewers. This has now been acquired and absorbed by Cassyni.
Can we use mime-type checks for ensuring that an actual PDF is being uploaded to our site? Just checking that .pdf is the extension is not enough , mime would tell us whether it is an actual PDF ( an actual PDF is supposed to start with certain characters , and contains some more information after that which proves it's identity).
Similarly , for our database , we should be using prepared statements to minimise SQL injection attacks.
Can we use mime-type checks for ensuring that an actual PDF is being uploaded to our site? Just checking that .pdf is the extension is not enough , mime would tell us whether it is an actual PDF ( an actual PDF is supposed to start with certain characters , and contains some more information after that which proves it's identity).
Similarly , for our database , we should be using prepared statements to minimise SQL injection attacks.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27649759/using-prepared-statements-with-mysql-in-python https://www.npmjs.com/package/mime-types