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Text.FileExtensionToMimeType

Finds a mime type for a file extension.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
FileExtension	The file extension to lookup. Anything before a dot is ignored, so you can pass whole file name or path.	"test.pdf"

Result

Returns OK or error.

Description

Examples

Find mime type for PDF:

MBS("Text.FileExtensionToMimeType"; "pdf")

Example result: application/pdf

Find mime type for whole file name:

MBS("Text.FileExtensionToMimeType"; "my.test.pdf")

Example result: application/pdf

See also

• CURL.FormAddKeyValueContentType
• MailComposer.AddAttachmentContainer
• MailComposer.AddAttachmentFile
• MailComposer.AddAttachmentText
• MessageComposer.AddAttachmentFile
• SendMail.AddAttachmentContainer
• SendMail.AddAttachmentFile
• SendMail.AddAttachmentText
• SocialRequest.addMultipartContainer
• SocialRequest.addMultipartText

Example Databases

• iOS/iOS Email Sending
• iOS/iOS Message Sending

Blog Entries

• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 8.1pr2
• MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.4pr1

Release notes

• Version 8.1
  • Changed Text.FileExtensionToMimeType to prefer our table in the plugin to not report wrong type if your desktop database on Mac is broken.

Created 2nd October 2015, last changed 11st December 2016

Text.EncodeURLComponent   -   Text.FilterASCII

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