Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there an easy way (with/without a common module) to check a file's mimetype? I want to be a little more secure than checking a files extension for my file uploader.

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Re: check file type
by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 20, 2007 at 18:25 UTC
    File::Type (uses file magic)

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      You could read the first 3 bytes of the file and use a regex statement to determine type, MZ, PK, RAR etc.
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