How to Safely Deliver Buyer Images While Preserving Unmodified Originals
A software architecture guide outlines best practices for delivering purchased images to buyers while keeping original files immutable and privately stored. The approach recommends serving only moderated, processed renditions by default, releasing originals solely when a buyer's order explicitly grants that entitlement. Every delivered image must be traceable to a specific source revision, crop specification, and moderation decision to prevent unreviewed content from reaching paying customers. Alerting systems should trigger on confirmed policy bypasses rather than every failed crop, and dashboards must identify failures by ratio and transform version to avoid masking localized errors. The guide also stresses that authorization decisions must precede byte-range handling, and that changing source files or crop algorithms silently invalidates prior moderation coverage.
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