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Corrupt EPUB file (broken container)

EPUB whose META-INF/container.xml points at an OPF file that does not exist in the archive.

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Filenamebroken-container.epub
FormatEPUB
Size1.5 KB (1,516 bytes)
MIME typeapplication/octet-stream
SHA-256afd0525368dec495c11f8cff4db86c5d0e85b131f6888f1ba328502d12e3a59e
What this file catchesReaders that trust container.xml without checking the target resolves. A correct reader reports a broken book; a fragile one throws an unhandled error deep in parsing.

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curl -fsSL -o "broken-container.epub" "https://files.hexaqa.com/ebook/broken-container.epub"
curl -fsSL "https://files.hexaqa.com/ebook/broken-container.epub" | sha256sum # expect: afd0525368dec495c11f8cff4db86c5d0e85b131f6888f1ba328502d12e3a59e

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