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=head1 NAME
MIME::Types - Definition of MIME types
=head1 INHERITANCE
MIME::Types
is a Exporter
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use MIME::Types;
my $mt = MIME::Types->new(...); # MIME::Types object
my $type = $mt->type('text/plain'); # MIME::Type object
my $type = $mt->mimeTypeOf('gif');
my $type = $mt->mimeTypeOf('picture.jpg');
my @types = $mt->httpAccept('text/html, application/json;q=0.1')
=head1 DESCRIPTION
MIME types are used in many applications (for instance as part of e-mail
and HTTP traffic) to indicate the type of content which is transmitted.
or expected. See RFC2045 at F<https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt>
Sometimes detailed knowledge about a mime-type is need, however this
module only knows about the file-name extensions which relate to some
filetype. It can also be used to produce the right format: types
which are not registered at IANA need to use 'x-' prefixes.
This object administers a huge list of known mime-types, combined
from various sources. For instance, it contains B<all IANA> types
and the knowledge of Apache. Probably the most complete table on
the net!
=head2 MIME::Types and daemons (fork)
If your program uses fork (usually for a daemon), then you want to have
the type table initialized before you start forking. So, first call
my $mt = MIME::Types->new;
Later, each time you create this object (you may, of course, also reuse
the object you create here) you will get access to B<the same global table>
of types.
=head1 METHODS
=head2 Constructors
=over 4
=item MIME::Types-E<gt>B<new>(%options)
Create a new C<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.
-Option --Default
db_file <installed source>
only_complete <false>
only_iana <false>
skip_extensions <false>
=over 2
=item db_file => FILENAME
=item only_complete => BOOLEAN
Only include complete MIME type definitions: requires at least one known
extension. This will reduce the number of entries --and with that the
amount of memory consumed-- considerably.
In your program you have to decide: the first time that you call
the creator (C<new>) determines whether you get the full or the partial
information.
=item only_iana => BOOLEAN
Only load the types which are currently known by IANA.
=item skip_extensions => BOOLEAN
Do not load the table to map extensions to types, which is quite large.
=back
=back
=head2 Knowledge
=over 4
=item $obj-E<gt>B<addType>($type, ...)
Add one or more TYPEs to the set of known types. Each TYPE is a
C<MIME::Type> which must be experimental: either the main-type or
the sub-type must start with C<x->.
Please inform the maintainer of this module when registered types
are missing. Before version MIME::Types version 1.14, a warning
was produced when an unknown IANA type was added. This has been
removed, because some people need that to get their application
to work locally... broken applications...
=item $obj-E<gt>B<extensions>()
Returns a list of all defined extensions.
=item $obj-E<gt>B<listTypes>()
Returns a list of all defined mime-types by name only. This will B<not>
instantiate L<MIME::Type|MIME::Type> objects. See L<types()|MIME::Types/"Knowledge">
=item $obj-E<gt>B<mimeTypeOf>($filename)
Returns the C<MIME::Type> object which belongs to the FILENAME (or simply
its filename extension) or C<undef> if the file type is unknown. The extension
is used and considered case-insensitive.
In some cases, more than one type is known for a certain filename extension.
In that case, the preferred one is taken (for an unclear definition of
preference)
example: use of mimeTypeOf()
my $types = MIME::Types->new;
my $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('gif');
my $mime = $types->mimeTypeOf('picture.jpg');
print $mime->isBinary;
=item $obj-E<gt>B<type>($string)
Returns the C<MIME::Type> which describes the type related to STRING.
[2.00] Only one type will be returned.
[before 2.00] One type may be described more than once. Different
extensions may be in use for this type, and different operating systems
may cause more than one C<MIME::Type> object to be defined. In scalar
context, only the first is returned.
=item $obj-E<gt>B<types>()
Returns a list of all defined mime-types. For reasons of backwards
compatibility, this will instantiate L<MIME::Type|MIME::Type> objects, which will
be returned. See L<listTypes()|MIME::Types/"Knowledge">.
=back
=head2 HTTP support
=over 4
=item $obj-E<gt>B<httpAccept>($header)
[2.07] Decompose a typical HTTP-Accept header, and sort it based on the
included priority information. Returned is a sorted list of type names,
where the highest priority type is first. The list may contain '*/*'
(accept any) or a '*' as subtype.
Ill-formated typenames are ignored. On equal qualities, the order is
kept. See RFC2616 section 14.1
example:
my @types = $types->httpAccept('text/html, application/json;q=9');
=item $obj-E<gt>B<httpAcceptBest>($accept|\@types, @have)
[2.07] The C<$accept> string is processed via L<httpAccept()|MIME::Types/"HTTP support"> to order the
types on preference. You may also provide a list of ordered C<@types>
which may have been the result of that method, called earlier.
As second parameter, you pass a LIST of types you C<@have> to offer.
Those need to be L<MIME::Type|MIME::Type> objects. The preferred type will get
selected. When none of these are accepted by the client, this will
return C<undef>. It should result in a 406 server response.
example:
my $accept = $req->header('Accept');
my @have = map $mt->type($_), qw[text/plain text/html];
my @ext = $mt->httpAcceptBest($accept, @have);
=item $obj-E<gt>B<httpAcceptSelect>($accept|\@types, @filenames|\@filenames)
[2.07] Like L<httpAcceptBest()|MIME::Types/"HTTP support">, but now we do not return a pair with mime-type
and filename, not just the type. If $accept is C<undef>, the first
filename is returned.
example:
use HTTP::Status ':constants';
use File::Glob 'bsd_glob'; # understands blanks in filename
my @filenames = bsd_glob "$imagedir/$fnbase.*;
my $accept = $req->header('Accept');
my ($fn, $mime) = $mt->httpAcceptSelect($accept, @filenames);
my $code = defined $mime ? HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE : HTTP_OK;
=back
=head1 FUNCTIONS
The next functions are provided for backward compatibility with MIME::Types
versions [0.06] and below. This code originates from Jeff Okamoto
F<okamoto@corp.hp.com> and others.
=over 4
=item B<by_mediatype>(TYPE)
This function takes a media type and returns a list or anonymous array of
anonymous three-element arrays whose values are the file name suffix used to
identify it, the media type, and a content encoding.
TYPE can be a full type name (contains '/', and will be matched in full),
a partial type (which is used as regular expression) or a real regular
expression.
=item B<by_suffix>(FILENAME|SUFFIX)
Like C<mimeTypeOf>, but does not return an C<MIME::Type> object. If the file
+type is unknown, both the returned media type and encoding are empty strings.
example: use of function by_suffix()
use MIME::Types 'by_suffix';
my ($mediatype, $encoding) = by_suffix('image.gif');
my $refdata = by_suffix('image.gif');
my ($mediatype, $encoding) = @$refdata;
=item B<import_mime_types>()
This method has been removed: mime-types are only useful if understood
by many parties. Therefore, the IANA assigns names which can be used.
In the table kept by this C<MIME::Types> module all these names, plus
the most often used temporary names are kept. When names seem to be
missing, please contact the maintainer for inclusion.
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
This module is part of MIME-Types distribution version 2.09,
built on September 14, 2014. Website: F<http://perl.overmeer.net/mimetypes/>
=head1 LICENSE
Copyrights 1999,2001-2014 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
See F<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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