Re: Determining MIME types
Re: Determining MIME types
- Subject: Re: Determining MIME types
- From: Matthew Delves <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:36:02 +1100
On 19/01/2008, at 12:35 PM, j o a r wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Jim Puls wrote:
If you (simply) extract the extension from the end of a filename,
you can get its UTI and then turn that in to a MIME type.
I was just about to suggest the same resource. I only have a couple
of things to add:
* Keep in mind that the mappings provided by that API is incomplete,
even for popular / common file types.
Still, something is better than nothing.
* IIRC (and this is clearly not my area of expertise) if you're
downloading something over HTTP (and probably other protocols too)
the server can provide a MIME type that differs from the one you
would expect from just looking at the file name suffix. There might
not even be a file name suffix, but the server can still provide a
MIME type.
NSURLResponse provides a method for retrieving the MIME type, though
what I would prefer is something which can be calculated from the
filename.
I have managed to get the UTI from the file extension, though unsure
about how to get the MIME type from the UTI.
Thanks,
Matthew Delves
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