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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

Libmagic guesses based on the file contents. We're unlikely to take that approach... you could do something similar by just downloading the first portion of the file (a hundred bytes?), since most of the file type markers that this kind of library look for are located in the header of the file.

What's the specific scenario for your app? Are you frequently seeing files with the "wrong" extensions? In any case, Dropbox itself isn't going to be able to help you here. We don't do any sniffing of file content to try to guess the MIME type.

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