Re: Determining MIME types
Re: Determining MIME types
- Subject: Re: Determining MIME types
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:35:45 -0800
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.
* 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.
j o a r
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