I am developing a url sniffer and i wanted to filter results as i wanted to grab only media files by checking their mime types. I am searching over google for two days now but can’t find any correct solution.
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I am developing a url sniffer and i wanted to filter results as i wanted to grab only media files by checking their mime types. I am searching over google for two days now but can’t find any correct solution.
IIS just looks at the file extension of a file, and looks it up in an internal database (you can Create/Read/Update/Delete entries).
This isn’t 100% accurate (extension doesn’t have to match the content), but going a step further would be overkill.
Here’s more on mime types.