[Catalyst] determine MIME type of binary Webservice result?

[Mesdaq, Ali]

To do in memory matches I use File::LibMagic on ubuntu box with the latest lib magic library installed. 
my $libm = File::LibMagic->new();
my $mtype = $libm->checktype_contents($content);
There is also a method for getting 

Thanks,
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Sr. Security Researcher
Websense Security Labs
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Wueppelmann [mailto:william.wueppelmann at canadiana.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:39 AM
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] determine MIME type of binary Webservice result?

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
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