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rmeador
rmeador

Reputation: 25696

Finding a MIME type for a file on windows

Is there a way to get a file's MIME type using some system call on Windows? I'm writing an IIS extension in C++, so it must be callable from C++, and I do have access to IIS if there is some functionality exposed. Obviously, IIS itself must be able to do this, but my googling has been unable to find out how. I did find this .net related question here on SO, but that doesn't give me much hope (as neither a good solution nor a C++ solution is mentioned there).

I need it so I can serve up dynamic files using the appropriate content type from my app. My plan is to first consult a list of MIME types within my app, then fall back to the system's MIME type listing (however that works; obviously it exists since it's how you associate files with programs). I only have a file extension to work with in some cases, but in other cases I may have an actual on-disk file to examine. Since these will not be user-uploaded files, I believe I can trust the extension and I'd prefer an extension-only lookup solution since it seems simpler and faster. Thanks!

Upvotes: 13

Views: 17319

Answers (3)

Jerry Coffin
Jerry Coffin

Reputation: 490048

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.<ext>\Content Type (where "ext" is the file extension) will normally hold the MIME type.

Upvotes: 18

Roger Cook
Roger Cook

Reputation: 93

In Windows 10, the different MIME types are stored in the registry at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type

with a key for each content type (e. g. text/plain) under that key.

Upvotes: 1

Peter Tseng
Peter Tseng

Reputation: 13993

Pasted from http://www.snoyman.com/blog/2012/03/ie-mimetype-png.html:

#include <urlmon.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    char buff[256];
    LPWSTR out;

    FILE *in = fopen("title.png", "rb");

    fread(buff, 1, 256, in);

    FindMimeFromData(NULL, NULL, buff, 256, NULL, FMFD_DEFAULT, &out, 0);

    printf("%ls\n", out);

    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

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