- This commit contains initial support for uploading and sending images natively
-- i.e. a WhatsApp image upload, instead of sending through a bare link.
- All images supported by the OPTICL library are supported; this is because WA
needs us to generate a jpeg thumbnail for the image (which can probably be
made smaller)
- Importantly, this functionality is currently a trivial DoS vector: simply send
a large file (or an infinite file, like time.gif) and it ALL gets downloaded
and buffered into RAM...!
- At least this is limited to users who have actually registered with the
bridge.
- Failing to send the image in any way results in an XMPP error getting reported
back to the sender.
- Also, the initial registration QR code upload thing now happens in another
thread.
- The new PUT-WHATSAPP-MEDIA-FILE can encrypt and upload a blob of file data to
WhatsApp, and returns everything we'd need to make a protobuf message out of
that.
- However, important functionality is still absent: whatscl needs to gain some
support for sending protobuf messages for file uploads, and we'd also need to
integrate with some image/video libraries in order to do related processing
tasks.
- For example, uploading an image requires producing a JPEG thumbnail for it,
as well as figuring out its size.
- Uploading audio would require conversion to Opus.
- Maybe we could attempt to integrate with ffmpeg or something? This is likely
to get tricky.
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