Merge pull request 'feat(intake): issue named upload links and accept photo submissions (#222)' (#250) from feature/222-upload-links into main

Reviewed-on: #250

backend/migrations/1787500000000_add-intake-pipeline.js

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+exports.up = (pgm) => {
+  pgm.sql(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS upload_links (
+      id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+      label TEXT NOT NULL,
+      -- The token itself is never stored, only its digest. A leaked database
+      -- is then not also a leaked set of working upload links, and the admin
+      -- screen can show a token exactly once — at creation — for the same
+      -- reason a password reset link is not re-readable.
+      token_hash TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
+      revoked_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
+      submission_count INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+      -- Null means no cap. A link handed to a regular contributor is
+      -- open-ended; one handed out for a single box of stock is not. The
+      -- route defaults this to a finite number rather than null, so an
+      -- unbounded link is something asked for rather than something that
+      -- happens when nobody thought about it.
+      max_submissions INTEGER,
+      last_used_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
+      created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+    );
+
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS item_drafts (
+      id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+      item_id INTEGER NOT NULL UNIQUE REFERENCES items(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+      -- SET NULL rather than CASCADE: deleting a link must not delete the
+      -- items that arrived through it. Provenance is lost; the goods are not.
+      upload_link_id INTEGER REFERENCES upload_links(id) ON DELETE SET NULL,
+      submitter_note TEXT,
+      state TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'queued',
+      attempts INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+      model TEXT,
+      ai_name TEXT,
+      ai_description TEXT,
+      ai_category_id INTEGER REFERENCES categories(id) ON DELETE SET NULL,
+      ai_tag_names TEXT[],
+      -- Kept even though a suggestion is also copied onto the item, so what
+      -- the model proposed stays readable after the admin has edited the
+      -- item's price. Without it there is no way to ask later whether the
+      -- model's numbers were any good.
+      ai_suggested_price_cents INTEGER,
+      -- ai | default | admin. Where the item's current price came from.
+      -- Recorded rather than inferred: a model that happens to suggest exactly
+      -- 8000, or an admin who deliberately types the model's number, both
+      -- collapse any comparison-based guess.
+      price_source TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'default',
+      ai_error TEXT,
+      input_tokens INTEGER,
+      output_tokens INTEGER,
+      cost_micros INTEGER,
+      drafted_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
+      reviewed_at TIMESTAMPTZ,
+      created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+    );
+
+    -- The review queue reads by state; everything else reads by item, which
+    -- the UNIQUE constraint on item_id already indexes.
+    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS item_drafts_state_idx ON item_drafts (state);
+
+    -- A submitted item is priced on arrival rather than left unpriced, so the
+    -- column keeps NOT NULL and only gains a fallback. 80.00 applies when
+    -- nothing else supplies a price; the drafting worker in #223 writes a
+    -- model's suggestion over it when there is one.
+    --
+    -- The number lives here rather than in configuration deliberately.
+    -- Changing a default price is a rare, deliberate act that deserves a
+    -- record; an environment variable would let it drift silently between
+    -- environments, and a wrong default is invisible until something has
+    -- already sold at it.
+    ALTER TABLE items ALTER COLUMN price_cents SET DEFAULT 8000;
+  `);
+};
+
+exports.down = (pgm) => {
+  pgm.sql(`
+    ALTER TABLE items ALTER COLUMN price_cents DROP DEFAULT;
+    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS item_drafts;
+    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS upload_links;
+  `);
+};

backend/src/app.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import adminSettingsRouter from './routes/adminSettings';
 import adminEmailTemplatesRouter from './routes/adminEmailTemplates';
 import adminCategoriesRouter from './routes/adminCategories';
 import adminTagsRouter from './routes/adminTags';
+import adminUploadLinksRouter from './routes/adminUploadLinks';
+import intakeRouter from './routes/intake';
 import adminVersionRouter from './routes/adminVersion';
 import filtersRouter from './routes/filters';
 import customersRouter from './routes/customers';
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@ import { attachCustomer } from './middleware/customerAuth';
 import { requireAdminGate } from './middleware/adminGate';
 import { asyncRoute } from './asyncRoute';
 import { uploadsRouter } from './uploads';
+import { trimTrailingSlashes } from './utils';
 
 const app = express();
 // Express advertises itself in X-Powered-By by default, which hands an
@@ -36,13 +39,6 @@ app.use(cookieParser());
 app.use(asyncRoute(attachCustomer));
 app.use('/uploads', uploadsRouter(process.env.UPLOADS_DIR || '/app/uploads'));
 
-// Trimmed with a loop rather than a `/+$/` regex, which backtracks.
-function trimTrailingSlashes(value: string): string {
-  let trimmed = value;
-  while (trimmed.endsWith('/')) trimmed = trimmed.slice(0, -1);
-  return trimmed;
-}
-
 app.get('/api/config', (_req, res) => {
   const clientId = process.env.PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID;
   const isPlaceholder = !clientId || clientId.length < 10 || clientId === 'REPLACE_WITH_PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID';
@@ -68,6 +64,9 @@ app.get('/api/config', (_req, res) => {
 app.use('/api/items', itemsRouter);
 app.use('/api/filters', filtersRouter);
 app.use('/api/cart', cartRouter);
+// Public and unauthenticated by design (#222). No requireAdminGate: the token
+// in the path is the whole access control, and every refusal is a 404.
+app.use('/api/intake', intakeRouter);
 app.use('/api/checkout/cart', cartCheckoutRouter);
 // requireAdminGate is attached to each admin router rather than to a path
 // prefix. Attached to the router, an admin router added later at some other
@@ -79,6 +78,7 @@ app.use('/api/admin/settings', requireAdminGate, adminSettingsRouter);
 app.use('/api/admin/email-templates', requireAdminGate, adminEmailTemplatesRouter);
 app.use('/api/admin/categories', requireAdminGate, adminCategoriesRouter);
 app.use('/api/admin/tags', requireAdminGate, adminTagsRouter);
+app.use('/api/admin/upload-links', requireAdminGate, adminUploadLinksRouter);
 app.use('/api/admin/version', requireAdminGate, adminVersionRouter);
 app.use('/api/admin', requireAdminGate, adminRouter);
 app.use('/api/customers/me/addresses', shippingAddressesRouter);

backend/src/imageUpload.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+/**
+ * The one validated path from a multipart request to files on the uploads
+ * volume.
+ *
+ * Extracted from routes/admin.ts when a second caller appeared (#222's public
+ * intake endpoint). It is deliberately one module rather than two similar
+ * ones: every property that makes an upload safe here — the type allowlist,
+ * the magic-byte check after the write, names from a CSPRNG rather than from
+ * `originalname`, the re-encode that strips EXIF, and the cleanup of whatever
+ * a refused request left behind — is a property a second implementation would
+ * have to reproduce exactly. A near-copy that drifted would be precisely the
+ * gap #95, #103, #180 and #226 exist to close.
+ *
+ * Nothing below changed in the move. The comments came with it, because they
+ * record why the code is shaped as it is and are the most valuable part of it.
+ */
+
+import { Request, Response, NextFunction } from 'express';
+import multer from 'multer';
+import { promises as fs } from 'fs';
+import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
+import { PoolClient } from 'pg';
+import {
+  ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES,
+  SIGNATURE_BYTES,
+  extensionFor,
+  isAllowedImageType,
+  signatureMatches
+} from './uploadTypes';
+import { reencodeInPlace } from './imageProcessing';
+
+const UPLOADS_DIR = process.env.UPLOADS_DIR || '/app/uploads';
+
+// Multer writes to disk with no size cap unless one is given, so a single
+// request could fill the uploads volume. Bound every dimension of the
+// multipart body: image count, bytes per image, and the small text fields
+// (name/description/price) that accompany them.
+const MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST = 6;
+// 8 MB, not 8 MiB — this is the ceiling S5693 treats as safe, and 8 * 1024 *
+// 1024 sits just over it. Plenty for a product photo either way.
+const MAX_IMAGE_BYTES = 8_000_000;
+const MAX_TEXT_FIELDS = 8;
+const MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES = 64 * 1024;
+
+// Refused before a byte is written. This catches the honest mistake — picking a
+// PDF by accident — and nothing more, because file.mimetype is whatever the
+// caller wrote in the multipart headers. The bytes are checked after the write;
+// see verifyUploadedImages.
+class UnsupportedImageTypeError extends Error {}
+
+const storage = multer.diskStorage({
+  destination: UPLOADS_DIR,
+  // Stored names come from a CSPRNG rather than a timestamp plus Math.random,
+  // which is predictable enough that a caller could guess (or collide with)
+  // another upload's path.
+  //
+  // The extension comes from the validated content type rather than from
+  // path.extname(file.originalname), so the name on disk cannot disagree with
+  // what the file claims to be — a caller cannot get `.html` onto the uploads
+  // volume by naming their file that way.
+  filename: (_req, file, cb) => {
+    const ext = extensionFor(file.mimetype);
+    if (!ext) {
+      // Unreachable while fileFilter runs first, and here so that it stays
+      // unreachable rather than silently writing a file with no extension.
+      cb(new UnsupportedImageTypeError(`unsupported image type ${file.mimetype}`), '');
+      return;
+    }
+    cb(null, `${randomUUID()}${ext}`);
+  }
+});
+
+// Reviewed for #180. Bounding one request is only half the problem — see
+// discardUnlessAccepted below for the other half, which is bounding what the
+// volume accumulates across requests that were refused.
+const upload = multer({
+  storage,
+  limits: {
+    fileSize: MAX_IMAGE_BYTES,
+    files: MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST,
+    fields: MAX_TEXT_FIELDS,
+    fieldSize: MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES
+  },
+  fileFilter: (_req, file, cb) => {
+    if (!isAllowedImageType(file.mimetype)) {
+      cb(new UnsupportedImageTypeError(
+        `${file.mimetype} is not an accepted image type — allowed: ${ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES.join(', ')}`
+      ));
+      return;
+    }
+    cb(null, true);
+  }
+});
+
+// Reads only the leading bytes — enough to identify a format, not enough to
+// care how large the file is. The handle is closed before anything is unlinked,
+// because an open handle makes the unlink fail on Windows.
+//
+// Reviewed for #180. The path is not caller-controlled despite arriving from a
+// request: multer composes it from `destination`, which is a server constant,
+// and `filename`, which the storage above sets to `randomUUID()` plus an
+// extension looked up from the validated content type. The caller's
+// `originalname` is never consulted, so no part of the path traverses anywhere.
+async function readHead(filePath: string): Promise<Buffer> {
+  const handle = await fs.open(filePath, 'r');
+  try {
+    const buffer = Buffer.alloc(SIGNATURE_BYTES);
+    const { bytesRead } = await handle.read(buffer, 0, SIGNATURE_BYTES, 0);
+    return buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead);
+  } finally {
+    await handle.close();
+  }
+}
+
+// Best effort: a file that cannot be removed should not turn a 400 into a 500,
+// but it must not be left behind quietly either.
+async function discardUploads(files: Express.Multer.File[]): Promise<void> {
+  await Promise.all(
+    files.map((file) =>
+      fs.unlink(file.path).catch((err: unknown) => {
+        console.error(`[upload] could not remove rejected file ${file.path}:`, err);
+      })
+    )
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Removes a request's uploaded files unless the request actually succeeded.
+ *
+ * multer writes to disk before any route logic runs, and its own cleanup only
+ * covers errors it raised itself. Everything after that — a failed signature
+ * check, a malformed `category_id`, a database error, a dropped connection —
+ * previously left the bytes on the volume with nothing referencing them: no row
+ * to find them by, and no bound on how many could accumulate. Bounding the size
+ * of one upload does not help if every refused upload is kept forever (#180).
+ *
+ * Registered as soon as multer succeeds rather than at each `return`, so a
+ * route added later inherits it instead of having to remember it. That is the
+ * whole reason it is a hook and not a call: the failure it prevents is someone
+ * adding a fourth early return.
+ *
+ * `close` rather than `finish`, so an aborted connection is covered too, and
+ * `writableEnded` distinguishes a response that completed from one that never
+ * did — the latter is not a success however its status code reads.
+ */
+function discardUnlessAccepted(req: Request, res: Response): void {
+  res.on('close', () => {
+    if (res.writableEnded && res.statusCode < 400) return;
+    void discardUploads((req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || []);
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Confirms each stored file actually is what it was declared to be.
+ *
+ * This cannot happen in multer's fileFilter, which runs before the stream has
+ * been read — there are no bytes to look at yet. So the check runs after the
+ * write.
+ *
+ * Checking only: removing the files is discardUnlessAccepted's job, and doing
+ * it here as well would unlink twice and log an ENOENT for every refused
+ * upload. That also covers the case this function used to miss — `readHead`
+ * itself throwing, which returned no message and so cleaned up nothing.
+ *
+ * Returns the message to refuse with, or null when everything checks out.
+ */
+async function verifyUploadedImages(req: Request): Promise<string | null> {
+  const files = (req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || [];
+
+  for (const file of files) {
+    const head = await readHead(file.path);
+    if (!signatureMatches(file.mimetype, head)) {
+      return `${file.originalname} does not contain ${file.mimetype} data`;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Rebuilds every accepted file so it carries no metadata (#226).
+ *
+ * After verification, deliberately: re-encoding a file whose bytes do not match
+ * its declared type would be doing work on something already refused, and
+ * sharp's own error would replace the clearer message that check produces.
+ *
+ * A failure here refuses the upload rather than storing the original. Storing
+ * it would mean the one case where a photo keeps the coordinates it was taken
+ * at is the case nobody was told about.
+ *
+ * Returns the message to refuse with, or null when every file was rebuilt.
+ */
+async function stripUploadedImages(req: Request): Promise<string | null> {
+  const files = (req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || [];
+
+  for (const file of files) {
+    try {
+      await reencodeInPlace(file.path, file.mimetype);
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.error(`[upload] could not re-encode ${file.path}:`, err);
+      return `${file.originalname} could not be processed`;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return null;
+}
+
+// No error-handling middleware is mounted on the app, so translate multer's
+// limit errors here instead of letting them surface as a generic 500.
+const uploadImages = (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
+  upload.array('images', MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST)(req, res, (err: unknown) => {
+    if (err instanceof UnsupportedImageTypeError) {
+      return res.status(400).json({ error: err.message });
+    }
+    if (err instanceof multer.MulterError) {
+      const status = err.code === 'LIMIT_FILE_SIZE' ? 413 : 400;
+      return res.status(status).json({ error: err.message });
+    }
+    if (err) {
+      return next(err);
+    }
+
+    // Every file is on disk by this point and multer will not clean up after
+    // itself again, so the bytes become this request's responsibility before
+    // anything else is allowed to fail.
+    discardUnlessAccepted(req, res);
+
+    verifyUploadedImages(req)
+      .then((problem) => {
+        if (problem) {
+          res.status(400).json({ error: problem });
+          return null;
+        }
+        return stripUploadedImages(req);
+      })
+      .then((problem) => {
+        // The first stage returns null both when it answered and when it found
+        // nothing wrong, so the response itself is what distinguishes them.
+        if (res.headersSent) return;
+        if (problem) {
+          res.status(400).json({ error: problem });
+          return;
+        }
+        next();
+      })
+      .catch(next);
+  });
+};
+
+/**
+ * Records uploaded files as an item's images.
+ *
+ * Create and update wrote this loop separately, differing only in where the id
+ * came from and where the sort order started — zero for a new item, one past
+ * the current maximum for an existing one. Both are parameters now.
+ *
+ * It also means the `/uploads/` prefix is written once. That matters more than
+ * it looks: #103 made the stored value the path `uploadUrl` joins an origin
+ * onto, so it is a contract rather than a string, and two places to change it
+ * is one place to forget.
+ */
+async function insertItemImages(
+  client: PoolClient,
+  itemId: number,
+  files: Express.Multer.File[],
+  firstSortOrder: number
+): Promise<void> {
+  // Iterated by entry rather than by index, so there is no possibly-undefined
+  // element to guard — the create path used to fall back to an empty filename,
+  // which would have stored a path pointing at the uploads directory itself.
+  for (const [offset, file] of files.entries()) {
+    await client.query(
+      `INSERT INTO item_images (item_id, image_path, sort_order) VALUES ($1, $2, $3)`,
+      [itemId, `/uploads/${file.filename}`, firstSortOrder + offset]
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+export {
+  uploadImages,
+  verifyUploadedImages,
+  stripUploadedImages,
+  insertItemImages,
+  MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST,
+  MAX_IMAGE_BYTES
+};

backend/src/rateLimit.ts

@@ -124,3 +124,63 @@ export const verificationResendLimiter = rateLimit({
     error: 'we have already sent several verification emails recently. Check your spam folder, and try again later.'
   }
 });
+
+/**
+ * Keyed on the caller alone, because an intake submission carries no email.
+ *
+ * The comment on `keyByCallerAndEmail` warns that a bare `ip:` bucket is a
+ * shared allowance rather than a per-caller one, and that trade is accepted
+ * here deliberately: the *link* is the per-caller identity, and its
+ * `submission_count` against `max_submissions` is the per-caller cap. This
+ * limiter exists for a different job — bounding what one address can throw at
+ * an unauthenticated endpoint that writes files to disk.
+ *
+ * ipKeyGenerator rather than `req.ip` raw, for the reason #84 records: a
+ * residential IPv6 customer is delegated a whole prefix and can source every
+ * request from a different address inside it for free, so keying on the exact
+ * address counts each one as a new caller and never bounds anything.
+ */
+export function keyByCaller(req: Request): string {
+  return ipKeyGenerator(req.ip ?? '');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Two limiters rather than one, because the two requests cost different things.
+ *
+ * Reading a link is a page load: it hits one indexed row and writes nothing.
+ * Submitting writes up to six files to the uploads volume. Counting them
+ * against a single allowance meant reloading the page consumed the budget for
+ * sending items, and at twenty apiece that allowance ran out after ten items —
+ * for exactly the person this feature is for, somebody working through a box
+ * of stock. The comment here used to say refusing them costs a consignment,
+ * while the number quietly did it.
+ *
+ * Both still key on the caller alone, since a submission carries no email. The
+ * `keyByCallerAndEmail` comment warns that a bare `ip:` bucket is a shared
+ * allowance rather than a per-caller one, and that trade is accepted here: the
+ * link is the per-caller identity and its `max_submissions` is the per-caller
+ * cap, while these bound what one address can throw at an unauthenticated
+ * endpoint.
+ */
+export const intakeViewLimiter = rateLimit({
+  windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000,
+  // Generous, because it is a page load. Someone re-reading the form, losing
+  // their signal, or coming back to it should never be told to wait.
+  limit: 120,
+  keyGenerator: keyByCaller,
+  standardHeaders: 'draft-7',
+  legacyHeaders: false,
+  message: { error: 'too many requests — please try again shortly' }
+});
+
+export const intakeSubmitLimiter = rateLimit({
+  windowMs: 15 * 60 * 1000,
+  // Each of these writes files, so this is the one worth bounding. Thirty in a
+  // quarter of an hour is more than anyone photographing items can manage and
+  // far less than a script would want.
+  limit: 30,
+  keyGenerator: keyByCaller,
+  standardHeaders: 'draft-7',
+  legacyHeaders: false,
+  message: { error: 'too many submissions — please try again later' }
+});

backend/src/routes/admin.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-import { Router, Request, Response, NextFunction } from 'express';
-import multer from 'multer';
-import { promises as fs } from 'fs';
-import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
+import { Router, Request, Response } from 'express';
 import { PoolClient } from 'pg';
 import { pool, requireRow } from '../db';
 import { ADMIN_ITEM_SELECT, AdminItemRow, ItemRecord } from '../itemSelect';
@@ -9,15 +6,13 @@ import { ItemStatus } from '../types';
 import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
 import { parseItemFilters, buildItemFilterSql, FilterError } from '../itemFilters';
 import { tagColorFor } from '../utils';
-import {
-  ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES,
-  SIGNATURE_BYTES,
-  extensionFor,
-  isAllowedImageType,
-  signatureMatches
-} from '../uploadTypes';
 import { notifyFavoritersOfSale, notifyFavoritersOfRemoval, collectFavoriteRecipients } from '../favoriteAlerts';
-import { reencodeInPlace } from '../imageProcessing';
+// The upload pipeline moved to src/imageUpload.ts when #222's public intake
+// endpoint became a second caller. Mounting uploadImages gets the type
+// allowlist, the magic-byte check, and the EXIF-stripping re-encode together —
+// which is the point of it being one module rather than something each route
+// assembles for itself.
+import { uploadImages, insertItemImages } from '../imageUpload';
 
 const router = Router();
 
@@ -31,223 +26,6 @@ interface ItemStatusRow {
   status: ItemStatus;
 }
 
-const UPLOADS_DIR = process.env.UPLOADS_DIR || '/app/uploads';
-
-// Multer writes to disk with no size cap unless one is given, so a single
-// request could fill the uploads volume. Bound every dimension of the
-// multipart body: image count, bytes per image, and the small text fields
-// (name/description/price) that accompany them.
-const MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST = 6;
-// 8 MB, not 8 MiB — this is the ceiling S5693 treats as safe, and 8 * 1024 *
-// 1024 sits just over it. Plenty for a product photo either way.
-const MAX_IMAGE_BYTES = 8_000_000;
-const MAX_TEXT_FIELDS = 8;
-const MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES = 64 * 1024;
-
-// Refused before a byte is written. This catches the honest mistake — picking a
-// PDF by accident — and nothing more, because file.mimetype is whatever the
-// caller wrote in the multipart headers. The bytes are checked after the write;
-// see verifyUploadedImages.
-class UnsupportedImageTypeError extends Error {}
-
-const storage = multer.diskStorage({
-  destination: UPLOADS_DIR,
-  // Stored names come from a CSPRNG rather than a timestamp plus Math.random,
-  // which is predictable enough that a caller could guess (or collide with)
-  // another upload's path.
-  //
-  // The extension comes from the validated content type rather than from
-  // path.extname(file.originalname), so the name on disk cannot disagree with
-  // what the file claims to be — a caller cannot get `.html` onto the uploads
-  // volume by naming their file that way.
-  filename: (_req, file, cb) => {
-    const ext = extensionFor(file.mimetype);
-    if (!ext) {
-      // Unreachable while fileFilter runs first, and here so that it stays
-      // unreachable rather than silently writing a file with no extension.
-      cb(new UnsupportedImageTypeError(`unsupported image type ${file.mimetype}`), '');
-      return;
-    }
-    cb(null, `${randomUUID()}${ext}`);
-  }
-});
-
-// Reviewed for #180. Bounding one request is only half the problem — see
-// discardUnlessAccepted below for the other half, which is bounding what the
-// volume accumulates across requests that were refused.
-const upload = multer({
-  storage,
-  limits: {
-    fileSize: MAX_IMAGE_BYTES,
-    files: MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST,
-    fields: MAX_TEXT_FIELDS,
-    fieldSize: MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES
-  },
-  fileFilter: (_req, file, cb) => {
-    if (!isAllowedImageType(file.mimetype)) {
-      cb(new UnsupportedImageTypeError(
-        `${file.mimetype} is not an accepted image type — allowed: ${ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES.join(', ')}`
-      ));
-      return;
-    }
-    cb(null, true);
-  }
-});
-
-// Reads only the leading bytes — enough to identify a format, not enough to
-// care how large the file is. The handle is closed before anything is unlinked,
-// because an open handle makes the unlink fail on Windows.
-//
-// Reviewed for #180. The path is not caller-controlled despite arriving from a
-// request: multer composes it from `destination`, which is a server constant,
-// and `filename`, which the storage above sets to `randomUUID()` plus an
-// extension looked up from the validated content type. The caller's
-// `originalname` is never consulted, so no part of the path traverses anywhere.
-async function readHead(filePath: string): Promise<Buffer> {
-  const handle = await fs.open(filePath, 'r');
-  try {
-    const buffer = Buffer.alloc(SIGNATURE_BYTES);
-    const { bytesRead } = await handle.read(buffer, 0, SIGNATURE_BYTES, 0);
-    return buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead);
-  } finally {
-    await handle.close();
-  }
-}
-
-// Best effort: a file that cannot be removed should not turn a 400 into a 500,
-// but it must not be left behind quietly either.
-async function discardUploads(files: Express.Multer.File[]): Promise<void> {
-  await Promise.all(
-    files.map((file) =>
-      fs.unlink(file.path).catch((err: unknown) => {
-        console.error(`[upload] could not remove rejected file ${file.path}:`, err);
-      })
-    )
-  );
-}
-
-/**
- * Removes a request's uploaded files unless the request actually succeeded.
- *
- * multer writes to disk before any route logic runs, and its own cleanup only
- * covers errors it raised itself. Everything after that — a failed signature
- * check, a malformed `category_id`, a database error, a dropped connection —
- * previously left the bytes on the volume with nothing referencing them: no row
- * to find them by, and no bound on how many could accumulate. Bounding the size
- * of one upload does not help if every refused upload is kept forever (#180).
- *
- * Registered as soon as multer succeeds rather than at each `return`, so a
- * route added later inherits it instead of having to remember it. That is the
- * whole reason it is a hook and not a call: the failure it prevents is someone
- * adding a fourth early return.
- *
- * `close` rather than `finish`, so an aborted connection is covered too, and
- * `writableEnded` distinguishes a response that completed from one that never
- * did — the latter is not a success however its status code reads.
- */
-function discardUnlessAccepted(req: Request, res: Response): void {
-  res.on('close', () => {
-    if (res.writableEnded && res.statusCode < 400) return;
-    void discardUploads((req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || []);
-  });
-}
-
-/**
- * Confirms each stored file actually is what it was declared to be.
- *
- * This cannot happen in multer's fileFilter, which runs before the stream has
- * been read — there are no bytes to look at yet. So the check runs after the
- * write.
- *
- * Checking only: removing the files is discardUnlessAccepted's job, and doing
- * it here as well would unlink twice and log an ENOENT for every refused
- * upload. That also covers the case this function used to miss — `readHead`
- * itself throwing, which returned no message and so cleaned up nothing.
- *
- * Returns the message to refuse with, or null when everything checks out.
- */
-async function verifyUploadedImages(req: Request): Promise<string | null> {
-  const files = (req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || [];
-
-  for (const file of files) {
-    const head = await readHead(file.path);
-    if (!signatureMatches(file.mimetype, head)) {
-      return `${file.originalname} does not contain ${file.mimetype} data`;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return null;
-}
-
-/**
- * Rebuilds every accepted file so it carries no metadata (#226).
- *
- * After verification, deliberately: re-encoding a file whose bytes do not match
- * its declared type would be doing work on something already refused, and
- * sharp's own error would replace the clearer message that check produces.
- *
- * A failure here refuses the upload rather than storing the original. Storing
- * it would mean the one case where a photo keeps the coordinates it was taken
- * at is the case nobody was told about.
- *
- * Returns the message to refuse with, or null when every file was rebuilt.
- */
-async function stripUploadedImages(req: Request): Promise<string | null> {
-  const files = (req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || [];
-
-  for (const file of files) {
-    try {
-      await reencodeInPlace(file.path, file.mimetype);
-    } catch (err) {
-      console.error(`[upload] could not re-encode ${file.path}:`, err);
-      return `${file.originalname} could not be processed`;
-    }
-  }
-
-  return null;
-}
-
-// No error-handling middleware is mounted on the app, so translate multer's
-// limit errors here instead of letting them surface as a generic 500.
-const uploadImages = (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
-  upload.array('images', MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST)(req, res, (err: unknown) => {
-    if (err instanceof UnsupportedImageTypeError) {
-      return res.status(400).json({ error: err.message });
-    }
-    if (err instanceof multer.MulterError) {
-      const status = err.code === 'LIMIT_FILE_SIZE' ? 413 : 400;
-      return res.status(status).json({ error: err.message });
-    }
-    if (err) {
-      return next(err);
-    }
-
-    // Every file is on disk by this point and multer will not clean up after
-    // itself again, so the bytes become this request's responsibility before
-    // anything else is allowed to fail.
-    discardUnlessAccepted(req, res);
-
-    verifyUploadedImages(req)
-      .then((problem) => {
-        if (problem) {
-          res.status(400).json({ error: problem });
-          return null;
-        }
-        return stripUploadedImages(req);
-      })
-      .then((problem) => {
-        // The first stage returns null both when it answered and when it found
-        // nothing wrong, so the response itself is what distinguishes them.
-        if (res.headersSent) return;
-        if (problem) {
-          res.status(400).json({ error: problem });
-          return;
-        }
-        next();
-      })
-      .catch(next);
-  });
-};
 
 // The multipart body carries category_id and tags as text fields. An absent
 // field means "leave as-is" on update, which is why these return undefined
@@ -305,34 +83,6 @@ async function setItemTags(client: PoolClient, itemId: number, tagIds: number[])
   }
 }
 
-/**
- * Records uploaded files as an item's images.
- *
- * Create and update wrote this loop separately, differing only in where the id
- * came from and where the sort order started — zero for a new item, one past
- * the current maximum for an existing one. Both are parameters now.
- *
- * It also means the `/uploads/` prefix is written once. That matters more than
- * it looks: #103 made the stored value the path `uploadUrl` joins an origin
- * onto, so it is a contract rather than a string, and two places to change it
- * is one place to forget.
- */
-async function insertItemImages(
-  client: PoolClient,
-  itemId: number,
-  files: Express.Multer.File[],
-  firstSortOrder: number
-): Promise<void> {
-  // Iterated by entry rather than by index, so there is no possibly-undefined
-  // element to guard — the create path used to fall back to an empty filename,
-  // which would have stored a path pointing at the uploads directory itself.
-  for (const [offset, file] of files.entries()) {
-    await client.query(
-      `INSERT INTO item_images (item_id, image_path, sort_order) VALUES ($1, $2, $3)`,
-      [itemId, `/uploads/${file.filename}`, firstSortOrder + offset]
-    );
-  }
-}
 
 /**
  * The two optional fields the item form submits as multipart text.

backend/src/routes/adminUploadLinks.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+import { Router, Request, Response } from 'express';
+import { pool, requireRow } from '../db';
+import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
+import { generateToken, hashToken } from '../uploadLinks';
+import { trimTrailingSlashes } from '../utils';
+
+const router = Router();
+
+/**
+ * Issuing and retiring the links that open the public intake endpoint (#222).
+ *
+ * A link is named because provenance matters more than convenience here. When
+ * one is shared further than intended the question is *which* one, and the
+ * answer has to come from somewhere — so every submission records the link it
+ * arrived through, and revoking kills that link rather than the feature.
+ *
+ * The token is returned by exactly one response in this file and is
+ * unrecoverable afterwards. That is why the admin screen has to present it as
+ * a one-time reveal rather than a field to come back to, and why losing it
+ * means issuing a new link rather than looking the old one up.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Shaped so a `SELECT *` can never leak the digest into a response.
+ *
+ * Spelling the columns out is the point: `SELECT *` here would put
+ * `token_hash` into every listing the moment somebody added a convenience.
+ */
+const LINK_SELECT = `
+  SELECT id, label, revoked_at, submission_count, max_submissions, last_used_at, created_at
+  FROM upload_links
+`;
+
+/**
+ * The cap a link gets when nobody chose one.
+ *
+ * Not a tuned number — large enough that an ordinary contributor never meets
+ * it, small enough that a link shared further than intended cannot be used
+ * indefinitely before anyone notices. The point is that the default is finite
+ * at all.
+ */
+const DEFAULT_MAX_SUBMISSIONS = 25;
+
+interface UploadLinkRow {
+  id: number;
+  label: string;
+  revoked_at: string | null;
+  submission_count: number;
+  max_submissions: number | null;
+  last_used_at: string | null;
+  created_at: string;
+}
+
+router.get('/', asyncRoute(async (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<UploadLinkRow>(`${LINK_SELECT} ORDER BY created_at DESC`);
+  res.json(rows);
+}));
+
+router.post('/', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  const label = typeof req.body?.label === 'string' ? req.body.label.trim() : '';
+  if (label === '') {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'a label is required' });
+  }
+
+  // Three cases, deliberately distinct. Absent means nobody decided, which
+  // gets the bounded default. An explicit null means unlimited — a decision
+  // someone made, visible in the request. A number is itself. Reading absent
+  // as unlimited is what would make every link unbounded by default.
+  const rawCap = req.body?.maxSubmissions;
+  let maxSubmissions: number | null = DEFAULT_MAX_SUBMISSIONS;
+  if (rawCap === null) {
+    maxSubmissions = null;
+  } else if (rawCap !== undefined && rawCap !== '') {
+    const parsed = Number(rawCap);
+    if (!Number.isInteger(parsed) || parsed < 1) {
+      return res.status(400).json({ error: 'maxSubmissions must be a positive whole number' });
+    }
+    maxSubmissions = parsed;
+  }
+
+  const token = generateToken();
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<UploadLinkRow>(
+    `INSERT INTO upload_links (label, token_hash, max_submissions)
+     VALUES ($1, $2, $3)
+     RETURNING id, label, revoked_at, submission_count, max_submissions, last_used_at, created_at`,
+    [label, hashToken(token), maxSubmissions]
+  );
+  const link = requireRow(rows, 'the upload_links INSERT');
+
+  // PUBLIC_URL is already required alongside SMTP and is what every other
+  // outbound link is built from. Absent in local development, which yields a
+  // relative URL the admin screen can still show and copy usefully.
+  const base = trimTrailingSlashes(process.env.PUBLIC_URL ?? '');
+  res.status(201).json({ ...link, token, url: `${base}/submit/${token}` });
+}));
+
+router.post('/:id/revoke', asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  // COALESCE so revoking twice keeps the original timestamp. The useful fact
+  // is when access ended, and a second click should neither rewrite that nor
+  // fail — a button that errors on a double-click teaches people to distrust
+  // it, which is the last thing wanted on the control that contains a leak.
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<UploadLinkRow>(
+    `UPDATE upload_links SET revoked_at = COALESCE(revoked_at, now())
+     WHERE id = $1
+     RETURNING id, label, revoked_at, submission_count, max_submissions, last_used_at, created_at`,
+    [req.params.id]
+  );
+
+  const link = rows[0];
+  if (!link) {
+    return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+  }
+  res.json(link);
+}));
+
+export default router;

backend/src/routes/intake.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+import { Router, Request, Response, NextFunction } from 'express';
+import { pool, requireRow } from '../db';
+import { asyncRoute } from '../asyncRoute';
+import { hashToken } from '../uploadLinks';
+import { uploadImages, verifyUploadedImages, insertItemImages } from '../imageUpload';
+import { intakeViewLimiter, intakeSubmitLimiter } from '../rateLimit';
+
+const router = Router();
+
+/**
+ * The public way in: photos of one item, from someone with no account (#222).
+ *
+ * Everything here is reachable by a stranger holding a URL, so the shape of
+ * every refusal matters. Unknown, revoked and exhausted links are all 404 and
+ * indistinguishable from outside — whether a link exists is not something a
+ * stranger needs to be able to learn, which is the same reasoning `uploads.ts`
+ * applies to files.
+ *
+ * The AI is deliberately not called here. A slow or failing model request must
+ * not turn into a failed upload for someone who did nothing wrong, and the
+ * photos may be the only copy — the item is often no longer in the sender's
+ * hands. The row is left at `state='queued'` for the worker in #223.
+ */
+
+interface LinkRow {
+  id: number;
+  label: string;
+}
+
+/** The link resolved by `requireUsableLink`, carried through to the handler. */
+interface IntakeRequest extends Request {
+  uploadLink?: LinkRow;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The link a token opens, or null.
+ *
+ * The cap is applied in SQL rather than in a later branch, so that "usable" is
+ * one concept with one definition used identically by the GET and the POST.
+ */
+async function usableLink(token: string): Promise<LinkRow | null> {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query<LinkRow>(
+    `SELECT id, label FROM upload_links
+     WHERE token_hash = $1
+       AND revoked_at IS NULL
+       AND (max_submissions IS NULL OR submission_count < max_submissions)`,
+    [hashToken(token)]
+  );
+  return rows[0] ?? null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolves the link *before* multer runs, so a stranger holding a bad token
+ * cannot cause a single byte to be written to the uploads volume.
+ *
+ * `discardUnlessAccepted` would delete those files afterwards, but "written
+ * then deleted" is a materially worse position than "never written" on an
+ * endpoint the whole internet can reach: it is disk churn an unauthenticated
+ * caller controls, and it leans on a cleanup that a crash between the write
+ * and the unlink would skip. Ordering this ahead of `uploadImages` is the
+ * whole mitigation, and a test asserts it.
+ */
+const requireUsableLink = asyncRoute(
+  async (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
+    const link = await usableLink(req.params.token as string);
+    if (!link) {
+      res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+      return;
+    }
+    (req as IntakeRequest).uploadLink = link;
+    next();
+  }
+);
+
+router.get('/:token', intakeViewLimiter, asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  const link = await usableLink(req.params.token as string);
+  if (!link) {
+    return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+  }
+  // The label only. Nothing about the catalogue, the admin, or other links.
+  res.json({ label: link.label });
+}));
+
+router.post(
+  '/:token',
+  intakeSubmitLimiter,
+  requireUsableLink,
+  uploadImages,
+  asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    // Set by requireUsableLink above. Re-checked rather than asserted non-null,
+    // so a future reordering of the middleware fails as a 404 rather than as a
+    // crash on undefined.
+    const link = (req as IntakeRequest).uploadLink;
+    if (!link) {
+      return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+    }
+
+    const files = (req.files as Express.Multer.File[]) || [];
+    if (files.length === 0) {
+      return res.status(400).json({ error: 'at least one photo is required' });
+    }
+
+    const refusal = await verifyUploadedImages(req);
+    if (refusal) {
+      return res.status(400).json({ error: refusal });
+    }
+
+    const note = typeof req.body?.note === 'string' ? req.body.note.trim() : '';
+
+    const client = await pool.connect();
+    try {
+      await client.query('BEGIN');
+
+      // A placeholder name. `items.name` is NOT NULL and nobody has named this
+      // yet — the drafting worker or the admin replaces it. A timestamp rather
+      // than "Untitled" so several waiting submissions stay tellable apart in
+      // the inventory list.
+      const { rows } = await client.query<{ id: number }>(
+        `INSERT INTO items (name, description, status)
+         VALUES ($1, $2, 'pending')
+         RETURNING id`,
+        [`Submission ${new Date().toISOString()}`, null]
+      );
+      const itemId = requireRow(rows, 'the intake item INSERT').id;
+
+      await insertItemImages(client, itemId, files, 0);
+
+      await client.query(
+        `INSERT INTO item_drafts (item_id, upload_link_id, submitter_note)
+         VALUES ($1, $2, $3)`,
+        [itemId, link.id, note === '' ? null : note]
+      );
+
+      // Counted inside the transaction and guarded on the same conditions as
+      // the lookup, so two submissions racing for the last slot of a capped
+      // link cannot both succeed.
+      const counted = await client.query(
+        `UPDATE upload_links
+         SET submission_count = submission_count + 1, last_used_at = now()
+         WHERE id = $1
+           AND revoked_at IS NULL
+           AND (max_submissions IS NULL OR submission_count < max_submissions)`,
+        [link.id]
+      );
+      if (counted.rowCount === 0) {
+        await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+        return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
+      }
+
+      await client.query('COMMIT');
+      // No item id in the response: the sender has no business knowing about
+      // the catalogue, and nothing they could do with it.
+      res.status(201).json({ ok: true });
+    } catch (err) {
+      await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+      console.error(err);
+      res.status(500).json({ error: 'internal error' });
+    } finally {
+      client.release();
+    }
+  })
+);
+
+export default router;

backend/src/uploadLinks.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+import crypto from 'crypto';
+
+/**
+ * Issuing and recognising the tokens that open the public intake endpoint.
+ *
+ * Kept apart from the routes so the rules are pure and testable directly — the
+ * same reasoning as `uploadTypes.ts` and `keyByCallerAndEmail`, both of which
+ * are exported for their tests because they are where the real decisions live.
+ */
+
+// 32 bytes — 256 bits. base64url so the value survives being pasted into a URL,
+// a chat message and a QR code without escaping, which is the whole point of a
+// link somebody is handed.
+const TOKEN_BYTES = 32;
+
+export function generateToken(): string {
+  return crypto.randomBytes(TOKEN_BYTES).toString('base64url');
+}
+
+/**
+ * The digest stored against a link.
+ *
+ * SHA-256 rather than bcrypt, deliberately, and the reasoning is the opposite
+ * of the one that governs passwords. A password hash is slow on purpose,
+ * because a human password carries little entropy and has to survive an
+ * offline dictionary attack. This is 256 bits from a CSPRNG: there is no
+ * dictionary to try, and guessing is not a threat that slowing the hash
+ * addresses.
+ *
+ * Meanwhile the digest is computed on every submission request, and the intake
+ * endpoint is unauthenticated. A deliberately slow hash there would be a
+ * denial-of-service surface rather than a protection — see #242, where cost-12
+ * bcrypt in the test suite was enough to push a request past its timeout under
+ * load.
+ *
+ * No timing-safe comparison is needed. The lookup is an indexed equality match
+ * on the digest rather than a byte-by-byte compare of the secret, and an
+ * attacker able to mount a timing attack against a 256-bit random value would
+ * still need the value.
+ */
+export function hashToken(token: string): string {
+  return crypto.createHash('sha256').update(token).digest('hex');
+}

backend/src/utils.ts

@@ -73,3 +73,21 @@ export function tagColorFor(name: string): string {
 
 export const MARKETING_CONSENT_TEXT =
   'I want to receive occasional emails about new one-of-a-kind items from Redefined Designs. I can unsubscribe at any time.';
+
+/**
+ * Strips trailing slashes so a base URL can be joined with a stored path.
+ *
+ * A loop rather than `/\/+$/`, which backtracks: sonarjs flags that pattern as
+ * super-linear, and the input here is an environment variable rather than
+ * anything hostile, but the cheap version is no harder to read.
+ *
+ * Shared because two callers now need it — `/api/config` sends
+ * `uploadsBaseUrl` this way, and the upload-link routes build a submission URL
+ * from PUBLIC_URL. Stored paths always begin with a slash, so trimming the
+ * base is what stops the join producing a double.
+ */
+export function trimTrailingSlashes(value: string): string {
+  let trimmed = value;
+  while (trimmed.endsWith('/')) trimmed = trimmed.slice(0, -1);
+  return trimmed;
+}

backend/tests/integration/intake.integration.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+import request from 'supertest';
+import { promises as fs } from 'fs';
+import app from '../../src/app';
+import { pool } from '../../src/db';
+import { resetDb, closeDb } from './setup/testDb';
+
+const UPLOADS_DIR = process.env.UPLOADS_DIR as string;
+
+// The same 1x1 PNG the upload validation suite uses, so the accepted case
+// exercises the whole path rather than a buffer that merely starts right.
+const PNG = Buffer.from(
+  'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR42mP8z8BQDwAEhQGAhKmMIQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==',
+  'base64'
+);
+
+// multer.diskStorage does not create its destination.
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  await fs.mkdir(UPLOADS_DIR, { recursive: true });
+});
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await resetDb();
+});
+
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await pool.end();
+  await closeDb();
+});
+
+async function storedFiles(): Promise<string[]> {
+  return fs.readdir(UPLOADS_DIR);
+}
+
+async function issueLink(label = 'Sarah', maxSubmissions?: number | null): Promise<string> {
+  const res = await request(app)
+    .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+    .send({ label, ...(maxSubmissions === undefined ? {} : { maxSubmissions }) });
+  expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+  return res.body.token as string;
+}
+
+describe('checking a link before showing the form', () => {
+  it('names the link so the page can greet the sender', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink('Sarah');
+    const res = await request(app).get(`/api/intake/${token}`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body.label).toBe('Sarah');
+  });
+
+  // 404 rather than 403 throughout: whether a link exists is not something a
+  // stranger needs to be able to distinguish. Same reasoning as uploads.ts.
+  it('404s an unknown token', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/intake/not-a-real-token');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+
+  it('404s a revoked link', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(`SELECT id FROM upload_links`);
+    await request(app).post(`/api/admin/upload-links/${rows[0]?.id}/revoke`);
+
+    const res = await request(app).get(`/api/intake/${token}`);
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('submitting an item', () => {
+  it('creates a pending item with its images, note and provenance', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink('Sarah');
+
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/api/intake/${token}`)
+      .field('note', 'Hand-thrown stoneware, chip on the base')
+      .attach('images', PNG, 'front.png')
+      .attach('images', PNG, 'back.png');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.ok).toBe(true);
+
+    const { rows: items } = await pool.query<{ id: number; status: string; price_cents: number }>(
+      `SELECT id, status, price_cents FROM items`
+    );
+    expect(items).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(items[0]?.status).toBe('pending');
+    // The migration's default, not a price anyone chose.
+    expect(items[0]?.price_cents).toBe(8000);
+
+    const { rows: images } = await pool.query<{ image_path: string }>(
+      `SELECT image_path FROM item_images WHERE item_id = $1 ORDER BY sort_order`,
+      [items[0]?.id]
+    );
+    expect(images).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(images[0]?.image_path).toMatch(/^\/uploads\/[a-f0-9-]+\.png$/);
+
+    const { rows: drafts } = await pool.query(
+      `SELECT submitter_note, state, price_source, upload_link_id
+       FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`,
+      [items[0]?.id]
+    );
+    expect(drafts[0]?.submitter_note).toBe('Hand-thrown stoneware, chip on the base');
+    expect(drafts[0]?.state).toBe('queued');
+    expect(drafts[0]?.price_source).toBe('default');
+    expect(drafts[0]?.upload_link_id).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('counts the submission against the link', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ submission_count: number; last_used_at: string | null }>(
+      `SELECT submission_count, last_used_at FROM upload_links`
+    );
+    expect(rows[0]?.submission_count).toBe(1);
+    expect(rows[0]?.last_used_at).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a submission with no photos', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).field('note', 'nothing attached');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items`);
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  // The file is named .png and declared image/png, but the bytes are not.
+  // This is the check that cannot happen before the write.
+  it('refuses a file whose bytes disagree with its type', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post(`/api/intake/${token}`)
+      .attach('images', Buffer.from('<html>not an image</html>'), {
+        filename: 'evil.png',
+        contentType: 'image/png'
+      });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items`);
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it('404s a revoked link without creating anything', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    const { rows: links } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(`SELECT id FROM upload_links`);
+    await request(app).post(`/api/admin/upload-links/${links[0]?.id}/revoke`);
+
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items`);
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  // The reason requireUsableLink is ordered ahead of uploadImages. Without that
+  // ordering this still returns 404 and still creates no item — the bytes just
+  // reach the disk first and are deleted afterwards. This asserts they never
+  // arrive, so a future reordering fails here rather than quietly handing an
+  // unauthenticated caller control of disk churn.
+  it('writes nothing to the uploads volume for a token that does not work', async () => {
+    const before = await storedFiles();
+
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/intake/not-a-real-token')
+      .attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+    expect(await storedFiles()).toEqual(before);
+  });
+
+  it('stops accepting once the link hits its cap', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink('One shot', 1);
+
+    const first = await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+    expect(first.status).toBe(201);
+
+    const second = await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'b.png');
+    expect(second.status).toBe(404);
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items`);
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  // #226 applies here too, and this route is exactly where it matters most:
+  // the photo comes from a stranger's phone rather than the shop's own camera.
+  it('strips metadata from a submitted photo', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ image_path: string }>(`SELECT image_path FROM item_images`);
+    const sharp = (await import('sharp')).default;
+    const stored = await sharp(
+      `${UPLOADS_DIR}/${rows[0]?.image_path.replace('/uploads/', '')}`
+    ).metadata();
+
+    expect(stored.exif).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('a submitted item does not reach the storefront', () => {
+  it('is absent from the public catalogue', async () => {
+    const token = await issueLink();
+    await request(app).post(`/api/intake/${token}`).attach('images', PNG, 'a.png');
+
+    const res = await request(app).get('/api/items');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(res.body).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});

backend/tests/integration/setup/testDb.ts

@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ export async function migrate(): Promise<void> {
 
 export async function resetDb(): Promise<void> {
   await testPool.query(`
-    TRUNCATE TABLE orders, checkout_items, checkouts, shipping_addresses, cart_items, carts,
-      customer_tokens, customer_sessions, favorites, customers, item_tags, item_images, items,
-      tags, categories
+    TRUNCATE TABLE item_drafts, upload_links, orders, checkout_items, checkouts,
+      shipping_addresses, cart_items, carts, customer_tokens, customer_sessions, favorites,
+      customers, item_tags, item_images, items, tags, categories
     RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE
   `);
 

backend/tests/integration/uploadLinks.integration.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+import request from 'supertest';
+import app from '../../src/app';
+import { pool } from '../../src/db';
+import { resetDb, closeDb } from './setup/testDb';
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await resetDb();
+});
+
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await pool.end();
+  await closeDb();
+});
+
+describe('issuing an upload link', () => {
+  it('returns the token exactly once, at creation', async () => {
+    const created = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Sarah' });
+
+    expect(created.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(created.body.label).toBe('Sarah');
+    expect(created.body.token).toMatch(/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{43}$/);
+    expect(created.body.url).toContain(`/submit/${created.body.token}`);
+
+    const listed = await request(app).get('/api/admin/upload-links');
+    expect(listed.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(listed.body).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The whole point of storing a digest: the listing cannot hand it back.
+    expect(listed.body[0].token).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(listed.body[0].token_hash).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('stores the digest rather than the token', async () => {
+    const created = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Estate sale box 3' });
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ token_hash: string }>(
+      `SELECT token_hash FROM upload_links`
+    );
+    expect(rows[0]?.token_hash).not.toBe(created.body.token);
+    expect(rows[0]?.token_hash).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{64}$/);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a link with no label', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/admin/upload-links').send({ label: '  ' });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a non-positive submission cap', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Bad cap', maxSubmissions: 0 });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+  });
+
+  // Omitting the field is the common case, so it is the case that has to be
+  // safe. An unbounded link should be something asked for, not something that
+  // happens when nobody thought about it.
+  it('bounds a link that was created without a cap', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/admin/upload-links').send({ label: 'Sarah' });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.max_submissions).toBe(25);
+  });
+
+  it('allows unlimited when it is asked for explicitly', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Always on', maxSubmissions: null });
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(201);
+    expect(res.body.max_submissions).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('revoking an upload link', () => {
+  it('stamps revoked_at and reports it in the listing', async () => {
+    const created = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Temporary' });
+
+    const revoked = await request(app)
+      .post(`/api/admin/upload-links/${created.body.id}/revoke`);
+
+    expect(revoked.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(revoked.body.revoked_at).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  // The useful fact is when access ended, so a second click must not rewrite
+  // it — and it must not be an error either, because a button that fails on a
+  // double-click teaches people to distrust it.
+  it('is idempotent, keeping the original timestamp', async () => {
+    const created = await request(app)
+      .post('/api/admin/upload-links')
+      .send({ label: 'Temporary' });
+
+    const first = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/upload-links/${created.body.id}/revoke`);
+    const second = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/upload-links/${created.body.id}/revoke`);
+
+    expect(second.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(second.body.revoked_at).toBe(first.body.revoked_at);
+  });
+
+  it('404s for a link that does not exist', async () => {
+    const res = await request(app).post('/api/admin/upload-links/9999/revoke');
+    expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+  });
+});

backend/tests/unit/uploadLinks.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { generateToken, hashToken } from '../../src/uploadLinks';
+
+describe('generateToken', () => {
+  it('produces a URL-safe token with no padding', () => {
+    expect(generateToken()).toMatch(/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{43}$/);
+  });
+
+  // The token is the entire access control on the intake endpoint. If two
+  // calls could collide, one person's link would open another's.
+  it('does not repeat', () => {
+    const seen = new Set(Array.from({ length: 1000 }, () => generateToken()));
+    expect(seen.size).toBe(1000);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('hashToken', () => {
+  it('is a lowercase hex sha256 digest', () => {
+    expect(hashToken('abc')).toBe(
+      'ba7816bf8f01cfea414140de5dae2223b00361a396177a9cb410ff61f20015ad'
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('is stable across calls, so a stored digest keeps matching', () => {
+    const token = generateToken();
+    expect(hashToken(token)).toBe(hashToken(token));
+  });
+
+  it('gives different tokens different digests', () => {
+    expect(hashToken(generateToken())).not.toBe(hashToken(generateToken()));
+  });
+});

docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-29-intake-upload-links.md

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ This is a pure refactor. No behaviour changes; the existing tests are the safety
 **Interfaces:**
 - Consumes: `uploadTypes.ts` (`ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES`, `SIGNATURE_BYTES`, `extensionFor`, `isAllowedImageType`, `signatureMatches`)
 - Produces:
-  - `uploadImages: (req, res, next) => void` — multer middleware, field name `images`
+  - `uploadImages: (req, res, next) => void` — multer middleware, field name `images`. Internally runs `verifyUploadedImages` then `stripUploadedImages`, so a caller mounting this gets validation *and* EXIF stripping without asking for either
   - `verifyUploadedImages(req: Request): Promise<string | null>` — refusal message, or null
   - `insertItemImages(client: PoolClient, itemId: number, files: Express.Multer.File[], firstSortOrder: number): Promise<void>`
   - `MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST: number`, `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES: number`
@@ -203,9 +203,13 @@ Expected: PASS. Record this — it is the comparison for Step 4.
 
 - [ ] **Step 2: Move the code**
 
-Create `backend/src/imageUpload.ts` and move into it, unchanged, from `routes/admin.ts`: `UnsupportedImageTypeError`, `UPLOADS_DIR`, `MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST`, `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES`, `MAX_TEXT_FIELDS`, `MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES`, `storage`, `upload`, `readHead`, `discardUploads`, `discardUnlessAccepted`, `verifyUploadedImages`, `uploadImages`, and `insertItemImages`.
+Create `backend/src/imageUpload.ts` and move into it, unchanged, from `routes/admin.ts`: `UnsupportedImageTypeError`, `UPLOADS_DIR`, `MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST`, `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES`, `MAX_TEXT_FIELDS`, `MAX_TEXT_FIELD_BYTES`, `storage`, `upload`, `readHead`, `discardUploads`, `discardUnlessAccepted`, `verifyUploadedImages`, **`stripUploadedImages`**, `uploadImages`, and `insertItemImages`.
 
-Keep every existing comment verbatim. They record why the code is shaped as it is (#95, #103, #180) and are the most valuable thing being moved.
+**`stripUploadedImages` and its `import { reencodeInPlace } from '../imageProcessing'` did not exist when this plan was written.** They arrived with #226 after it, and they are the step that removes EXIF — including the GPS coordinates a phone writes — from every accepted upload. Leaving them behind in `admin.ts` would give the public intake route in Task 5 an upload path that skips stripping entirely, which is the one thing #226 exists to prevent, and nothing would fail to say so.
+
+The promise chain inside `uploadImages` runs `verifyUploadedImages` and then `stripUploadedImages`, and moves as a whole. Verify after moving that `routes/admin.ts` no longer imports `imageProcessing` — if it still does, something was left behind.
+
+Keep every existing comment verbatim. They record why the code is shaped as it is (#95, #103, #180, #226) and are the most valuable thing being moved.
 
 Export `uploadImages`, `verifyUploadedImages`, `insertItemImages`, `MAX_IMAGES_PER_REQUEST`, `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES`. Everything else stays module-private.
 

frontend/src/admin/Admin.tsx

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import Emails from './Emails';
 import Settings from './Settings';
 import Categories from './Categories';
 import Tags from './Tags';
+import UploadLinks from './UploadLinks';
 import BuildStamp from './BuildStamp';
 import CategoryTreeSelect from './CategoryTreeSelect';
 import ItemCard from '../components/ItemCard';
@@ -391,6 +392,7 @@ export default function Admin() {
             { key: 'inventory', label: 'Inventory', children: <Inventory /> },
             { key: 'categories', label: 'Categories', children: <Categories /> },
             { key: 'tags', label: 'Tags', children: <Tags /> },
+            { key: 'upload-links', label: 'Upload links', children: <UploadLinks /> },
             { key: 'customers', label: 'Customers', children: <Customers /> },
             { key: 'emails', label: 'Emails', children: <Emails /> },
             { key: 'settings', label: 'Settings', children: <Settings /> }

frontend/src/admin/UploadLinks.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,191 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import Table from 'antd/es/table';
+import Button from 'antd/es/button';
+import Input from 'antd/es/input';
+import Space from 'antd/es/space';
+import Alert from 'antd/es/alert';
+import Typography from 'antd/es/typography';
+import Popconfirm from 'antd/es/popconfirm';
+import Checkbox from 'antd/es/checkbox';
+import Tag from 'antd/es/tag';
+
+const { Paragraph, Text } = Typography;
+
+interface UploadLink {
+  id: number;
+  label: string;
+  revoked_at: string | null;
+  submission_count: number;
+  max_submissions: number | null;
+  last_used_at: string | null;
+  created_at: string;
+}
+
+/** What a link gets when the form is left alone. Mirrors the server's default. */
+const DEFAULT_CAP = '25';
+
+/**
+ * Issuing and retiring the links that let someone without an account send in
+ * photos (#222).
+ *
+ * The token is shown exactly once, at creation, and cannot be recovered — the
+ * server stores only a digest. That is a deliberate property rather than an
+ * oversight, so this screen has to make the one-time nature obvious rather
+ * than leaving somebody to discover it by refreshing.
+ */
+export default function UploadLinks() {
+  const [links, setLinks] = useState<UploadLink[]>([]);
+  const [label, setLabel] = useState('');
+  const [cap, setCap] = useState(DEFAULT_CAP);
+  const [unlimited, setUnlimited] = useState(false);
+  // Held only in component state and shown once. A refresh loses it, which is
+  // the honest behaviour: the server genuinely cannot produce it again.
+  const [issued, setIssued] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [creating, setCreating] = useState(false);
+
+  async function load() {
+    const res = await fetch('/api/admin/upload-links');
+    if (res.ok) setLinks(await res.json());
+  }
+
+  // Load-on-mount, the same shape Tags and Categories use. `load` only sets
+  // state after its fetch resolves, so nothing here is synchronous.
+  // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/set-state-in-effect
+  useEffect(() => { void load(); }, []);
+
+  async function create() {
+    setCreating(true);
+    setError(null);
+
+    const res = await fetch('/api/admin/upload-links', {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      // Sent explicitly in all three cases rather than omitted. null is how
+      // unlimited is asked for; the server's default only has to cover callers
+      // that are not this screen.
+      body: JSON.stringify({
+        label,
+        maxSubmissions: unlimited ? null : Number(cap)
+      })
+    });
+
+    setCreating(false);
+
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      const payload = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+      setError(payload.error ?? 'Could not create the link.');
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const created = await res.json();
+    setIssued(created.url);
+    setLabel('');
+    setCap(DEFAULT_CAP);
+    setUnlimited(false);
+    await load();
+  }
+
+  async function revoke(id: number) {
+    await fetch(`/api/admin/upload-links/${id}/revoke`, { method: 'POST' });
+    await load();
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Space direction="vertical" size="large" style={{ width: '100%' }}>
+      <Paragraph>
+        Give one link per person or purpose. If a link is shared further than you meant, revoke that
+        one — everything already sent through it is kept.
+      </Paragraph>
+
+      <Space wrap>
+        <Input
+          placeholder="Who or what is this for?"
+          aria-label="Link label"
+          value={label}
+          onChange={(e) => setLabel(e.target.value)}
+          style={{ width: 260 }}
+        />
+        <Input
+          placeholder="Max uses"
+          aria-label="Maximum uses"
+          value={cap}
+          disabled={unlimited}
+          onChange={(e) => setCap(e.target.value)}
+          style={{ width: 140 }}
+        />
+        <Checkbox checked={unlimited} onChange={(e) => setUnlimited(e.target.checked)}>
+          No limit
+        </Checkbox>
+        <Button type="primary" onClick={create} loading={creating} disabled={label.trim() === ''}>
+          Create link
+        </Button>
+      </Space>
+
+      {error && <Alert type="error" message={error} showIcon />}
+
+      {issued && (
+        <Alert
+          type="success"
+          showIcon
+          message="Copy this link now"
+          description={
+            <>
+              <Paragraph copyable={{ text: issued }}>
+                <Text code>{issued}</Text>
+              </Paragraph>
+              <Text type="secondary">
+                It is not stored and cannot be shown again. If you lose it, revoke this link and
+                make another.
+              </Text>
+            </>
+          }
+          closable
+          onClose={() => setIssued(null)}
+        />
+      )}
+
+      <Table<UploadLink>
+        rowKey="id"
+        dataSource={links}
+        pagination={false}
+        columns={[
+          { title: 'Label', dataIndex: 'label' },
+          {
+            title: 'Used',
+            render: (_, row) =>
+              row.max_submissions === null
+                ? row.submission_count
+                : `${row.submission_count} of ${row.max_submissions}`
+          },
+          {
+            title: 'Status',
+            render: (_, row) =>
+              row.revoked_at ? <Tag>Revoked</Tag> : <Tag color="green">Active</Tag>
+          },
+          {
+            title: '',
+            render: (_, row) =>
+              row.revoked_at ? null : (
+                <Popconfirm
+                  title="Revoke this link?"
+                  description="Anyone holding it stops being able to send anything. Items already sent are kept."
+                  // Named after the action rather than left as "OK", matching
+                  // the okText this admin's other destructive confirms use.
+                  // A confirm button that says OK makes the reader re-read the
+                  // question to find out what they are agreeing to.
+                  okText="Revoke"
+                  okButtonProps={{ danger: true }}
+                  onConfirm={() => revoke(row.id)}
+                >
+                  <Button danger size="small">
+                    Revoke
+                  </Button>
+                </Popconfirm>
+              )
+          }
+        ]}
+      />
+    </Space>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/intake/Submit.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { useParams } from 'react-router-dom';
+import Typography from 'antd/es/typography';
+import Card from 'antd/es/card';
+import Upload from 'antd/es/upload';
+import Button from 'antd/es/button';
+import Input from 'antd/es/input';
+import Alert from 'antd/es/alert';
+import Spin from 'antd/es/spin';
+import Space from 'antd/es/space';
+import { UploadOutlined } from '@ant-design/icons';
+import type { UploadFile } from 'antd/es/upload/interface';
+import { fetchIntakeLink, submitItem } from './intakeApi';
+import type { LinkState } from './intakeApi';
+
+const { Title, Paragraph } = Typography;
+const { TextArea } = Input;
+
+/**
+ * Where someone with no account sends in photos of one item (#222).
+ *
+ * The three types the server will accept, and the same per-request cap. Listed
+ * here so the file picker offers exactly what will be taken and the count is
+ * bounded before anything is uploaded — but the server checks both again,
+ * because everything on this page is under the sender's control.
+ */
+const ACCEPT = 'image/jpeg,image/png,image/webp';
+const MAX_IMAGES = 6;
+
+export default function Submit() {
+  const { token = '' } = useParams();
+  const [state, setState] = useState<LinkState>({ kind: 'unusable' });
+  const [checking, setChecking] = useState(true);
+  const [files, setFiles] = useState<UploadFile[]>([]);
+  const [note, setNote] = useState('');
+  const [sending, setSending] = useState(false);
+  const [sent, setSent] = useState(false);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    let cancelled = false;
+    void fetchIntakeLink(token).then((result) => {
+      // The token can change if the URL does, and a late response from the
+      // previous one would otherwise overwrite the current answer.
+      if (cancelled) return;
+      setState(result);
+      setChecking(false);
+    });
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+    };
+  }, [token]);
+
+  async function send() {
+    setSending(true);
+    setError(null);
+
+    const result = await submitItem(
+      token,
+      // originFileObj is what antd hands back for a file it did not upload
+      // itself; beforeUpload returning false is what keeps them here. flatMap
+      // rather than map-then-filter because a type predicate cannot narrow to
+      // File here — antd's RcFile extends it, so the predicate would widen.
+      files.flatMap((f) => (f.originFileObj ? [f.originFileObj] : [])),
+      note
+    );
+
+    setSending(false);
+    if (result.ok) {
+      setSent(true);
+      return;
+    }
+    setError(result.error);
+  }
+
+  if (checking) {
+    return (
+      <div style={{ maxWidth: 640, margin: '48px auto', padding: '0 16px', textAlign: 'center' }}>
+        <Spin />
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  // Kept apart from the state below on purpose. The two need opposite
+  // reactions — wait a moment, versus go and ask for a different link — so
+  // telling a throttled sender their link was dead would send them to fetch a
+  // replacement that could not have helped.
+  if (state.kind === 'throttled') {
+    return (
+      <div style={{ maxWidth: 640, margin: '48px auto', padding: '0 16px' }}>
+        <Card>
+          <Title level={3}>Too many requests just now</Title>
+          <Paragraph>
+            Your link is fine — this page has just been asked for too many times from your
+            connection. Wait a minute and reload.
+          </Paragraph>
+        </Card>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  // One state for unknown, revoked and used-up alike, matching the server's
+  // single 404. Saying which it was would tell a stranger whether a link they
+  // guessed at exists.
+  if (state.kind === 'unusable') {
+    return (
+      <div style={{ maxWidth: 640, margin: '48px auto', padding: '0 16px' }}>
+        <Card>
+          <Title level={3}>This link is not active</Title>
+          <Paragraph>
+            It may have been turned off, or already used as many times as it was meant for. Ask
+            whoever sent it to you for a new one.
+          </Paragraph>
+        </Card>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (sent) {
+    return (
+      <div style={{ maxWidth: 640, margin: '48px auto', padding: '0 16px' }}>
+        <Card>
+          <Title level={3}>Thank you — it arrived</Title>
+          <Paragraph>
+            Somebody will look at your photos and write it up. Nothing is listed for sale until they
+            have.
+          </Paragraph>
+          <Button
+            onClick={() => {
+              setFiles([]);
+              setNote('');
+              setSent(false);
+            }}
+          >
+            Send another item
+          </Button>
+        </Card>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <div style={{ maxWidth: 640, margin: '48px auto', padding: '0 16px' }}>
+      <Card>
+        <Title level={3}>Send in an item</Title>
+        <Paragraph>
+          Photos of one item, and anything you know about it. Send each item separately.
+        </Paragraph>
+
+        <Space direction="vertical" size="middle" style={{ width: '100%' }}>
+          <Upload
+            accept={ACCEPT}
+            multiple
+            listType="picture"
+            maxCount={MAX_IMAGES}
+            fileList={files}
+            // Returning false stops antd uploading each file the moment it is
+            // picked; they are sent together by `send` instead, which is what
+            // makes this one request the server can accept or refuse as a unit.
+            beforeUpload={() => false}
+            onChange={({ fileList }) => setFiles(fileList)}
+          >
+            <Button icon={<UploadOutlined />}>Choose photos</Button>
+          </Upload>
+
+          <TextArea
+            rows={4}
+            value={note}
+            onChange={(e) => setNote(e.target.value)}
+            aria-label="Anything you know about this item"
+            placeholder="What is it, what is it made of, how big, what condition, where did it come from? Anything you know helps — a photo cannot show any of it."
+          />
+
+          {error && <Alert type="error" message={error} showIcon />}
+
+          <Button type="primary" onClick={send} loading={sending} disabled={files.length === 0}>
+            Send
+          </Button>
+        </Space>
+      </Card>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/intake/intakeApi.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+export interface IntakeLink {
+  label: string;
+}
+
+export type LinkState =
+  | { kind: 'usable'; link: IntakeLink }
+  | { kind: 'unusable' }
+  | { kind: 'throttled' };
+
+/**
+ * Whether a link works, and what it is called.
+ *
+ * The server answers 404 for unknown, revoked and exhausted links alike, and
+ * that is deliberate — whether a link exists is not something a stranger needs
+ * to learn. So all three collapse into one `unusable` state here rather than
+ * several the page would have to explain.
+ *
+ * A 429 is deliberately *not* one of them. This used to treat any non-OK
+ * response as "no link", which meant a rate-limited sender was told their link
+ * was dead — sending them to ask for a replacement that would not have helped,
+ * because the problem was the address they were coming from and a minute of
+ * patience. Two conditions that need opposite reactions must not share a
+ * message.
+ */
+export async function fetchIntakeLink(token: string): Promise<LinkState> {
+  const res = await fetch(`/api/intake/${encodeURIComponent(token)}`);
+
+  if (res.status === 429) return { kind: 'throttled' };
+  if (!res.ok) return { kind: 'unusable' };
+
+  return { kind: 'usable', link: await res.json() };
+}
+
+export type SubmitResult = { ok: true } | { ok: false; error: string };
+
+export async function submitItem(
+  token: string,
+  files: File[],
+  note: string
+): Promise<SubmitResult> {
+  const body = new FormData();
+  // The field name the server's multer instance listens on. Sending several
+  // under one name is what makes req.files an array.
+  for (const file of files) body.append('images', file);
+  body.append('note', note);
+
+  const res = await fetch(`/api/intake/${encodeURIComponent(token)}`, {
+    method: 'POST',
+    body
+  });
+
+  if (res.ok) return { ok: true };
+
+  // The server's message is the useful one — it names the offending file for a
+  // type or content refusal. The fallback covers a response that is not JSON
+  // at all, which is what a proxy error looks like.
+  const payload = await res.json().catch(() => ({}));
+  return { ok: false, error: payload.error ?? 'Something went wrong. Please try again.' };
+}

frontend/src/main.tsx

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import Admin from './admin/Admin';
 import AuthRouteModal from './customer/AuthRouteModal';
 import Account from './customer/Account';
 import PrivacyPolicy from './customer/PrivacyPolicy';
+import Submit from './intake/Submit';
 import VerifyEmail from './customer/VerifyEmail';
 import ForgotPassword from './customer/ForgotPassword';
 import ResetPassword from './customer/ResetPassword';
@@ -106,6 +107,8 @@ function AppRoutes() {
             MODAL_ROUTES would put it back in the 700px box it just left. */}
         <Route path="/orders" element={<Orders />} />
         <Route path="/privacy" element={<PrivacyPolicy />} />
+        {/* Public and unauthenticated: the token is the whole access control. */}
+        <Route path="/submit/:token" element={<Submit />} />
         <Route path="/verify-email" element={<VerifyEmail />} />
       </Routes>
       {/* Rendered outside the Routes above, which are showing the backdrop. */}

frontend/tests/e2e/admin-upload-links.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+import { test, expect, uniqueSuffix } from './fixtures';
+
+/**
+ * Issuing and revoking upload links from the admin (#222).
+ *
+ * Every link is labelled with a fresh run id and every assertion is scoped to
+ * that row. The suite is fullyParallel against one shared database, so an
+ * assertion on the table as a whole would be an assertion on whatever other
+ * specs happen to be doing (#241).
+ */
+
+test.describe('Managing upload links', () => {
+  test('issues a link, shows its token once, and lists it bounded', async ({ page, admin }) => {
+    const label = `Sarah ${uniqueSuffix()}`;
+
+    await admin.goto();
+    await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
+
+    await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
+
+    // Shown exactly once. The server keeps only a digest, so there is no
+    // reveal to come back to — the copy has to say so.
+    await expect(page.getByText('Copy this link now')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByText(/\/submit\//)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByText(/cannot be shown again/)).toBeVisible();
+
+    const row = page.getByRole('row', { name: new RegExp(label) });
+    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
+    // The default cap, not unlimited. An unbounded link should be asked for.
+    await expect(row.getByText('0 of 25')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(row.getByText('Active')).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
+  test('revokes a link, naming the action on the confirm', async ({ page, admin }) => {
+    const label = `Temporary ${uniqueSuffix()}`;
+
+    await admin.goto();
+    await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
+    await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
+
+    const row = page.getByRole('row', { name: new RegExp(label) });
+    await row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Revoke' }).click();
+
+    // The confirm names what it does rather than saying OK, which is what the
+    // rest of this admin's destructive actions do.
+    await page.getByRole('tooltip').getByRole('button', { name: 'Revoke' }).click();
+
+    await expect(row.getByText('Revoked')).toBeVisible();
+    // The row stays: what arrived through the link is kept, and the record of
+    // where it came from with it.
+    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
+  // Blank-means-unlimited would make the least deliberate action produce the
+  // least bounded link, so unlimited is a checkbox rather than an empty field.
+  test('makes unlimited a deliberate choice', async ({ page, admin }) => {
+    const label = `Always on ${uniqueSuffix()}`;
+
+    await admin.goto();
+    await page.getByRole('tab', { name: 'Upload links' }).click();
+    await page.getByLabel('Link label').fill(label);
+    await page.getByText('No limit').click();
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Create link' }).click();
+
+    const row = page.getByRole('row', { name: new RegExp(label) });
+    await expect(row).toBeVisible();
+    // A bare count rather than "0 of N".
+    await expect(row.getByText('0 of', { exact: false })).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+});

frontend/tests/e2e/intake-submit.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import { test, expect, createAdminContext, uniqueSuffix } from './fixtures';
+
+/**
+ * The public submission page (#222).
+ *
+ * Every fixture here carries a run id and every assertion names only what this
+ * run created. The suite is fullyParallel against one shared database, so a
+ * spec that asserts on anything catalogue-wide is asserting on other specs too
+ * (#241).
+ */
+const RUN = `i${uniqueSuffix()}`;
+
+let token = '';
+
+test.beforeAll(async ({ playwright }) => {
+  const api = await createAdminContext(playwright);
+
+  const res = await api.post('/api/admin/upload-links', {
+    data: { label: `Intake spec ${RUN}` }
+  });
+  expect(res.status(), 'creating the upload link').toBe(201);
+  token = (await res.json()).token;
+
+  await api.dispose();
+});
+
+test.describe('Sending in an item through a link', () => {
+  test('shows the form for a link that works', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`/submit/${token}`);
+
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Send in an item' })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Choose photos' })).toBeVisible();
+  });
+
+  // Nothing to send is not a submission, and the server would refuse it — but
+  // the sender should not have to find that out by pressing the button.
+  test('will not send until a photo is chosen', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`/submit/${token}`);
+
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Send' })).toBeDisabled();
+  });
+
+  // One state for every refusal, matching the server's single 404. Saying which
+  // kind of dead a link is would tell a stranger whether one they guessed at
+  // exists.
+  test('explains an unusable link without saying which kind', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto('/submit/not-a-real-token');
+
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'This link is not active' })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Choose photos' })).toHaveCount(0);
+  });
+
+  test('accepts a photo and says it arrived', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`/submit/${token}`);
+
+    // A real 1x1 PNG, so the server's magic-byte check sees what it expects
+    // rather than a buffer that merely starts correctly.
+    const png = Buffer.from(
+      'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAYAAAAfFcSJAAAADUlEQVR42mP8z8BQDwAEhQGAhKmMIQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==',
+      'base64'
+    );
+    await page.setInputFiles('input[type="file"]', {
+      name: `${RUN}.png`,
+      mimeType: 'image/png',
+      buffer: png
+    });
+    await page.getByLabel('Anything you know about this item').fill(`Stoneware ${RUN}`);
+
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Send' }).click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Thank you — it arrived' })).toBeVisible();
+    // The wording matters: it is what stops a sender wondering why their item
+    // is not on the site.
+    await expect(page.getByText(/Nothing is listed for sale until/)).toBeVisible();
+  });
+});