Accessing content_type locally

Ruby
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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: class File - RDoc Documentation
CGI class:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/cgi/rdoc/classes/CGI.html

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

“ftype” method only gives things like “file”, “directory”, etc
whereas CGI
“content_type” (what I want) gives things like “image/png”.

File class: class File - RDoc Documentation
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.

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Logan,

Thanks, yeah the problem was that the mime type isn’t part of a file.
I found MIME::Types http://rubyforge.org/projects/mime-types/ and it
does
just what I need.

Thanks.