Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Vineeth Aravindakshan wrote:
> > Is there any way of finding the mimetype or the type of the file when
> > there is no file extension.
>
> Not easily.  You can open the file, read some, then use the unknown content
> decoder. On OSes that have a non-extension MIME registry (basically OSX and
> BeOS) GetTypeFromFile() might work better.
>
> What we should _really_ do is make GetTypeFromFile() do the "read a little 
> bit"
> thing, imo.  There's a longstanding bug on that; it's just that no one has 
> had a
> chance to do it.
>
> Of course the unknown decoder only recognizes a very very short list of 
> types...
>
> -Boris

I dont have the file..........all i have is a url.........and i want to
handle the url based on the content type.......is there any other way
out than downloading each file and check the header???

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