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PHP: “JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50” Error Solved

My cross-platform Kinetica TouchandTell app running on an old iPad 3 was not successfully uploading images to our new RedStation hosted Ubuntu server (the Android builds were doing it just fine), and I wasn’t really sure why. The Appcelerator Titanium code seemed all okay and in fact it wasn’t until I checked the server’s PHP error logs that I finally spotted the reason why. Exhibit A:

“JPEG…