How to get the content-type of a file

Question

I am implementing a HTTP/1.0 server that processes GET or HEAD request.

I\'ve finished Date, Last-Modified, and

Answer 1

You could either look at the file extension (which is what most web servers do -- see e.g. the /etc/mime.types file; or you could use libmagic to automatically determine the content type by looking at the first few bytes of the file.