Let’s say you want to save a bunch of files somewhere, for instance in BLOBs. Let’s say you want to dish these files out via a web page and have the client automatically open the correct application/viewer. Assumption: The browser figures out which application/viewer to use by the mime-type (content-type?) header in the HTTP response. … Read more
I am looking for a simple way to get a mime type where the file extension is incorrect or not given, something similar to this question only in .Net. 20 Answers 20
Searching the web, I find heaps of different suggestions for what the proper MIME type for a font is, but I have yet to try any MIME type that rids me of a Chrome warning such as the following: Resource interpreted as font but transferred with MIME type font/otf The font is an OTF. I’ve … Read more
My program uses its own binary file type, so I assume I can’t use MIME type text/plain, as it is not a 7-bit ASCII file. Should I just call it “application/myappname”? 4 Answers 4
How do you get a Media Type (MIME type) from a file using Java? So far I’ve tried JMimeMagic & Mime-Util. The first gave me memory exceptions, the second doesn’t close its streams properly. How would you probe the file to determine its actual type (not merely based on the extension)? 28 Answers 28
MS Excel has the following observed MIME types: application/vnd.ms-excel (official) application/msexcel application/x-msexcel application/x-ms-excel application/x-excel application/x-dos_ms_excel application/xls application/x-xls application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet (xlsx) Is there any one type that would work for all versions? If not, do we need to set response.setContentType() with each one of these mime types individually? Also, we use file streaming in our application to … Read more
How can I get the MIME type from a file extension? 30 Answers 30
I have a page that allows the user to download a dynamically-generated file. It takes a long time to generate, so I’d like to show a “waiting” indicator. The problem is, I can’t figure out how to detect when the browser has received the file so that I can hide the indicator. I’m requesting a … Read more
When working with PDFs, I’ve run across the MIME types application/pdf and application/x-pdf among others. Is there a difference between these two types, and if so what is it? Is one preferred over the other? I’m working on a web app which must deliver huge amounts of PDFs and I want to do it the … Read more
