Re: Fwd: getting mime types

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 1 February 2013 15:43, Stephen Haywood
<stephen () averagesecurityguy info>wrote:

> Meant to send this to the list.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Haywood <stephen () averagesecurityguy info>
> Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [framework] getting mime types
> To: Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>
>
>
> The mime type does not affect the stored file but if you are worried about
> it, you could add a flag to the download function and let the user specify
> whether the file should be downloaded as binary or text. If the download is
> binary use application/octet-stream as the mime type, other wise use
> text/plain. Another option is to download all files as binary and use
> application/octet-stream.
>
> I'm not actually downloading the file, I'm pulling it from a database.
Going to default it to octet stream.

I'll have a look at your blog post as well, the more info the better.

Robin


> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
>
> > I've written a scrip to pull arbitrary files from a server, when I use
> > the store_loot function it wants a mime type. As the file can be anything,
> > how do I get the mime type?
> >
> > I can't see anyone else doing it in any of the other auxiliary modules,
> > most are hard coded or do simple checks on the file extension.
> >
> > Robin
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