instagram

[Harold Hartley]

But if that is the process, then anyone can edit an image on the desktop and while it is on the display then take device with instagram app and take the photo that’s on the display and then you get around the restriction built into Instagram. Simple isn’t it. BTW I do not use Instagram or WhatsApp either.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, at 12:51, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2019-07-06 12:14, Harold Hartley wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:01 PM Matt Graham wrote:
> >>> On 2019-07-06 11:45, Michael wrote:
> >>> how about uploading pictures [to Instagram] from your computer?
> >> The developers of Instagram don't want you to do that. The original
> >> idea was that all pictures uploaded to Instagram would be taken 
> >> directly
> >> from your phone, via their Instagram android/iphone applications, so 
> >> no
> >> image editing would take place.
> > What about when iOS 13 comes out will have photo editing. How is
> > Instagram going to control that[?]
> 
> The last time I looked, in order to upload a photo to Instagram, you 
> had to do it through their phone application. The actual procedure used 
> is (probably) not complicated: Instagram phone application does 
> something like "POST /login user=username password=password" to the 
> server, server replies with a session cookie. Phone application opens 
> the camera, acquires an image, post-processes the image, then does 
> another POST containing that image with that session cookie and 
> (probably) a secret. Server checks cookie, image, and secret, if they 
> all check out, image is uploaded and then available on Instagram's 
> servers. This is probably not exactly how it works, but it's probably 
> close. An application that isn't Instagram would not have the session 
> cookie or the secret, making it impossible for that application to 
> upload things.
> 
> IIRC, the phone application doesn't allow you to just grab a photo out 
> of the filesystem and upload it. I also think you can pay them money to 
> get an API key to allow something you've custom-built to upload images, 
> but ICBW as we didn't need that capability.
> 
> All info is from banging on an Instagram microservice-type thing for 
> work a while back. They had people with Instagram accounts, and they 
> wanted an easy way to retrieve those people's images and display them. 
> I had to create an Instagram account for testing... NOPEd that .apk 
> right off the work phone ASAP.
> 
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