NAME

MIME::Types - Definition of MIME types

SYNOPSIS

use MIME::Types;
my $mimetypes = MIME::Types->new;
my MIME::Type $plaintext = $mimetype->type('text/plain');
my MIME::Type $imagegif  = $mimetype->extension('gif');

DESCRIPTION

MIME types are used in MIME entities, for instance as part of e-mail and HTTP traffic. Sometimes real knowledge about a mime-type is need. This module will supply it.

METHODS

new OPTIONS

Create a new MIME::Types object which manages the data. In the current implementation, it does not matter whether you create this object often within your program, but in the future this may change.

OPTIONS                   DEFAULT
only_complete             0

• only_complete => BOOLEAN

  Only include complete mime-type definitions: requires extension and encoding. This will reduce the number of entries --and with that the amount of memory consumed-- enormously.

  In your program you have to decide: the first time that you call the creator (new) determines whether you get the full or the partial information.

type STRING

Return the MIME::Type which describes the type related to STRING. One type may be described more than once. Different extensions is use for this type, and different operating systems may cause more than one MIME::Type object to be defined. In scalar context, only the first is returned.

mimeTypeOf FILENAME

Returns the MIME::Type object which belongs to the FILENAME (or simply its filename extension). The extension is used, and considered case-insensitive.

Examples:

my MIME::Types $types = MIME::Types->new;
my MIME::Type  $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('gif');

my MIME::Type  $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('jpg');
print $mime->isBinary;

EXPORT

The next methods are provided for backward compatibility with MIME::Types versions 0.06 and below. This code originates from Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@corp.hp.com> and others.

by_suffix FILENAME|SUFFIX

Like mimeTypeOf but does not return an MIME::Type object.

Example:

use MIME::Types 'by_suffix';
my ($mediatype, $encoding) = by_suffix 'image.gif';

my $refdata =  by_suffix 'image.gif';
my ($mediatype, $encoding) = @$refdata;

by_mediatype TYPE

This function takes a media type and returns a list or anonymous array of anonymous three-element arrays whose values are the file name suffix used to identify it, the media type, and a content encoding.

TYPE can be a full type name (contains '/', and will be matched in full), a partial type (which is used as regular expression) or a real regular expression.

import_mime_types

This method has been removed, because it was primarily used to add info from the Apache mime definitions to the tables of MIME::Types. However this data is included now by default, so the method is not useful anymore and will croak.

SEE ALSO

MIME::Type

AUTHOR

Original module and data collection by Jeff Okamoto and the Apache team. Mark Overmeer (mimetypes@overmeer.net). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

VERSION

This code is beta version 0.12.

Copyright (c) 2001 by Jeff Okamoto and Mark Overmeer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.