Re: Determining MIME types

FROM : Jim Puls
DATE : Sat Jan 19 02:28:17 2008

On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Matthew Delves wrote:

> Hey folks,
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any ways to calculate the MIME type 
> of a URL (either a local file or out on the internet)?


Take a look at the Uniform Type Identifier system and its 
documentation, <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_utis/
>.

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.

-> jp