1MIME::Types(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation MIME::Types(3)
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6 MIME::Types - Definition of MIME types
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9 MIME::Types
10 is a Exporter
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13 use MIME::Types;
14 my $mt = MIME::Types->new(...); # MIME::Types object
15 my $type = $mt->type('text/plain'); # MIME::Type object
16 my $type = $mt->mimeTypeOf('gif');
17 my $type = $mt->mimeTypeOf('picture.jpg');
18 my @types = $mt->httpAccept('text/html, application/json;q=0.1')
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21 MIME types are used in many applications (for instance as part of
22 e-mail and HTTP traffic) to indicate the type of content which is
23 transmitted. or expected. See RFC2045 at
24 https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
25 Sometimes detailed knowledge about a mime-type is need, however this
27 module only knows about the file-name extensions which relate to some
28 filetype. It can also be used to produce the right format: types which
29 are not registered at IANA need to use 'x-' prefixes.
30 This object administers a huge list of known mime-types, combined from
32 various sources. For instance, it contains all IANA types and the
33 knowledge of Apache. Probably the most complete table on the net!
34 MIME::Types and daemons (fork)
36 If your program uses fork (usually for a daemon), then you want to have
37 the type table initialized before you start forking. So, first call
38 my $mt = MIME::Types->new;
40 Later, each time you create this object (you may, of course, also reuse
42 the object you create here) you will get access to the same global
43 table of types.
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46 Constructors
47 MIME::Types->new(%options)
48 Create a new "MIME::Types" object which manages the data. In the
49 current implementation, it does not matter whether you create this
50 object often within your program, but in the future this may
51 change.
52 -Option --Default
54 db_file <installed source>
55 only_complete <false>
56 only_iana <false>
57 skip_extensions <false>
58 db_file => FILENAME
60 The location of the database which contains the type information.
61 Only the first instantiation of this object will have this
62 parameter obeyed.
63 [2.10] This parameter can be globally overruled via the
65 "PERL_MIME_TYPE_DB" environment variable, which may be needed in
66 case of PAR or other tricky installations. For PAR, you probably
67 set this environment variable to "inc/lib/MIME/types.db"
68 only_complete => BOOLEAN
70 Only include complete MIME type definitions: requires at least
71 one known extension. This will reduce the number of entries
72 --and with that the amount of memory consumed-- considerably.
73 In your program you have to decide: the first time that you call
75 the creator ("new") determines whether you get the full or the
76 partial information.
77 only_iana => BOOLEAN
79 Only load the types which are currently known by IANA.
80 skip_extensions => BOOLEAN
82 Do not load the table to map extensions to types, which is quite
83 large.
84 Knowledge
86 $obj->addType($type, ...)
87 Add one or more TYPEs to the set of known types. Each TYPE is a
88 "MIME::Type" which must be experimental: either the main-type or
89 the sub-type must start with "x-".
90 Please inform the maintainer of this module when registered types
92 are missing. Before version MIME::Types version 1.14, a warning
93 was produced when an unknown IANA type was added. This has been
94 removed, because some people need that to get their application to
95 work locally... broken applications...
96 $obj->extensions()
98 Returns a list of all defined extensions.
99 $obj->listTypes()
101 Returns a list of all defined mime-types by name only. This will
102 not instantiate MIME::Type objects. See types()
103 $obj->mimeTypeOf($filename)
105 Returns the "MIME::Type" object which belongs to the FILENAME (or
106 simply its filename extension) or "undef" if the file type is
107 unknown. The extension is used and considered case-insensitive.
108 In some cases, more than one type is known for a certain filename
110 extension. In that case, the preferred one is taken (for an
111 unclear definition of preference)
112 example: use of mimeTypeOf()
114 my $types = MIME::Types->new;
116 my $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('gif');
117 my $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('picture.jpg');
119 print $mime->isBinary;
120 $obj->type($string)
122 Returns the "MIME::Type" which describes the type related to
123 STRING. [2.00] Only one type will be returned.
124 [before 2.00] One type may be described more than once. Different
126 extensions may be in use for this type, and different operating
127 systems may cause more than one "MIME::Type" object to be defined.
128 In scalar context, only the first is returned.
129 $obj->types()
131 Returns a list of all defined mime-types. For reasons of backwards
132 compatibility, this will instantiate MIME::Type objects, which will
133 be returned. See listTypes().
134 HTTP support
136 $obj->httpAccept($header)
137 [2.07] Decompose a typical HTTP-Accept header, and sort it based on
138 the included priority information. Returned is a sorted list of
139 type names, where the highest priority type is first. The list may
140 contain '*/*' (accept any) or a '*' as subtype.
141 Ill-formated typenames are ignored. On equal qualities, the order
143 is kept. See RFC2616 section 14.1
144 example:
146 my @types = $types->httpAccept('text/html, application/json;q=0.9');
148 $obj->httpAcceptBest($accept|\@types, @have)
150 [2.07] The $accept string is processed via httpAccept() to order
151 the types on preference. You may also provide a list of ordered
152 @types which may have been the result of that method, called
153 earlier.
154 As second parameter, you pass a LIST of types you @have to offer.
156 Those need to be MIME::Type objects. The preferred type will get
157 selected. When none of these are accepted by the client, this will
158 return "undef". It should result in a 406 server response.
159 example:
161 my $accept = $req->header('Accept');
163 my @have = map $mt->type($_), qw[text/plain text/html];
164 my @ext = $mt->httpAcceptBest($accept, @have);
165 $obj->httpAcceptSelect($accept|\@types, @filenames|\@filenames)
167 [2.07] Like httpAcceptBest(), but now we do not return a pair with
168 mime-type and filename, not just the type. If $accept is "undef",
169 the first filename is returned.
170 example:
172 use HTTP::Status ':constants';
174 use File::Glob 'bsd_glob'; # understands blanks in filename
175 my @filenames = bsd_glob "$imagedir/$fnbase.*;
177 my $accept = $req->header('Accept');
178 my ($fn, $mime) = $mt->httpAcceptSelect($accept, @filenames);
179 my $code = defined $mime ? HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE : HTTP_OK;
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182 The next functions are provided for backward compatibility with
183 MIME::Types versions [0.06] and below. This code originates from Jeff
184 Okamoto okamoto@corp.hp.com and others.
185 by_mediatype(TYPE)
187 This function takes a media type and returns a list or anonymous
188 array of anonymous three-element arrays whose values are the file
189 name suffix used to identify it, the media type, and a content
190 encoding.
191 TYPE can be a full type name (contains '/', and will be matched in
193 full), a partial type (which is used as regular expression) or a
194 real regular expression.
195 by_suffix(FILENAME|SUFFIX)
197 Like "mimeTypeOf", but does not return an "MIME::Type" object. If
198 the file +type is unknown, both the returned media type and
199 encoding are empty strings.
200 example: use of function by_suffix()
202 use MIME::Types 'by_suffix';
204 my ($mediatype, $encoding) = by_suffix('image.gif');
205 my $refdata = by_suffix('image.gif');
207 my ($mediatype, $encoding) = @$refdata;
208 import_mime_types()
210 This method has been removed: mime-types are only useful if
211 understood by many parties. Therefore, the IANA assigns names
212 which can be used. In the table kept by this "MIME::Types" module
213 all these names, plus the most often used temporary names are kept.
214 When names seem to be missing, please contact the maintainer for
215 inclusion.
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218 This module is part of MIME-Types distribution version 2.17, built on
219 January 26, 2018. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/
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222 Copyrights 1999-2018 by [Mark Overmeer <markov@cpan.org>]. For other
223 contributors see ChangeLog.
224 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
226 under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
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