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Stuart T.'s avatar
Stuart T.
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11 years ago

DBFile Mime Type?

Is there any way to get the mime-type of a DBFile? Ideally, it'd be nice to query from the DBFileInfo so I can know before I download it. But if that's not possible, can I get it from a file I've dow...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

To add a little color here, what Greg suggests is all that Dropbox does anyway. We don't store any sort of MIME type with the file; we just look at the file extension. So there's no advantage to getting this information from Dropbox; just pick your favorite list (e.g. from a web server) and map the extensions yourself.

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