Re: Obtaining the Apache Content-type for a file

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:06 +0100, André Warnier wrote:
> I have a PerlResponseHandler which processes some kind of "logical document-id" provided 
> in a request, locates the corresponding "real document" on the filesystem, and returns it 
> to the client via sendfile().
> At the moment, this handler uses its own custom logic to determine the MIME type of the 
> document and return it to the client as a Content-type HTTP header.
> 
> My question is : instead of this custom logic, does there exist a way, via mod_perl, to 
> obtain this target file's MIME-type from Apache, using Apache's own logic (mod_mime, 
> AddType etc..) for that ?

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but if you don't need to server
anything else along with it, then perhaps you could use
internal_redirect
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/SubRequest.html#C_internal_redirect_
and let Apache set the Content-Type for you.  

If you do find the direct answer to your question, please post it, as
I'm interested in this question also.

Thanks!

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