Quickest way to get content type

Question

I need to chech for the content type (if it\'s image, audio or video) of an url which has been inserted by the user. I have a code like this:

URL url = new U         


        

Answer 1

Thanks to DaveHowes answer and googling around about how to get HEAD I got it in this way:

URL url = new URL(urlname);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)  url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
connection.connect();
String contentType = connection.getContentType();