[Qt-interest] Identify mimetype

[Atlant Schmidt]

Marcelo:

  It's somewhat system dependent, isn't it?

  For files delivered to a browser using HTTP, yes, there's usually an
  explicit MIMETYPE.

  But on DOS/Windows, the filetype is used to identify the contents
  of the file (and could therefore be used to display a customized icon).

  On Mac OS prior to Snow Leopard, the Finder Information Block for the
  file contained this information. And with  Snow Leopard, Apple have
  gone to using the filetype instead.

  On Unix/Linux, there's nothing that really enforces the relationship
  between files and the type of contents they contain. File paths *MAY*
  contain some characters after a dot (for example, ".cpp") and that
  *MAY* hint at what's in the file, but it's not enforced. A magic number
  in the first two or four bytes of the file contents is sometimes used
  instead.

  What I'm saying is you may need to ask a more-bounded question;
  it's not clear to me that files "in the most general sense" have a
  MIMETYPE.

                                 Atlant

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From: qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt.nokia.com] On Behalf Of Marcelo Estanislau Geyer
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 08:03
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Subject: [Qt-interest] Identify mimetype

Hi,
I have not found a way to identify the mimetype of a file. I need to display the icon for the file format. Any suggestion is welcome, need something cross platform (Linux and Windows). Thanks

Marcelo E. Geyer
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