Re: Obtaining the Apache Content-type for a file

David Booth wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks.  I will have a look at both.  I don't think I an use the internal_redirect in my case,
lookup_file sounds interesting.  I didn't think of looking there.

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