[Catalyst] determine MIME type of binary Webservice result?

[William Wueppelmann]

On 2010-01-19, at 9:21 AM, Jens Schwarz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in my Catalyst application I use Webservices to connect to SAP. One of these returns "binary" data (right now base64-encoded XML, later also PDF).
> 
> Is it possible to determine the MIME type of those returned (sub)strings? If so, how?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jens
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I am using File::MimeInfo::Magic to determine MIME types for uploaded files. I haven't tried to use it with in-memory strings as opposed to on-disk files, but the docs for File::MimeInfo say that this is doable.

-William