Re: Obtaining the Apache Content-type for a file

On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 12:09 -0500, David Booth wrote:
> 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.

P.S. I just noticed lookup_file:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/SubRequest.html#C_lookup_file_
I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it *might* do what you want.


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