From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-06-24T09:52:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing content_type locally


On Jun 23, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Larrytheliquid wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out a way to get the same information that you  
> would
> from the "content_type" method of the CGI class.
> The problem is that I want to get this info from a file already in the
> filesystem locally. For example, using ruby's File.size would give  
> me the
> same info as an uploaded CGI object's size method. However, the  
> file class'
> "ftype" method only gives things like "file", "directory", etc  
> whereas CGI
> "content_type" (what I want) gives things like "image/png".
>
> File class: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/File.html#M000016
> CGI class: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/cgi/rdoc/classes/ 
> CGI.html
>
> -- 
> Respectfully:
> Larry Diehl

I think this is as close are you are going to get: http://raa.ruby- 
lang.org/project/filemagic/

You have to remember that MIME types are placed in the headers by the  
web-server.