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??? _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
