mimeTypeExtensions

This is a programmatically generated character vector
  whose names identify the  MIME type typically associated with
  the extension which are the values.
  This is used in <code><a href="/link/guessMIMEType?package=RCurl&version=1.95-0.1&to=RCurl" rd-options="RCurl" data-mini-rdoc="RCurl::guessMIMEType">guessMIMEType</a></code>.
  We can match an extension and then find the corresponding
  MIME type.
  There are duplicates.

datasets

The package allows one to compose general HTTP requests
        and provides convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post
        forms, etc. and process the results returned by the Web server.
        This provides a great deal of control over the HTTP/FTP/...
        connection and the form of the request while providing a
        higher-level interface than is available just using R socket
        connections.  Additionally, the underlying implementation is
        robust and extensive, supporting FTP/FTPS/TFTP (uploads and
        downloads), SSL/HTTPS, telnet, dict, ldap, and also supports
        cookies, redirects, authentication, etc.

Duncan Lang

RCurl

General network (HTTP/FTP/...) client interface for R

mimeTypeExtensions function

The format is a named character vector
  where the names are the MIME types
  and the values are the file
  extensions.

format

The table of MIME types and extensions was programmatically extracted
from <url>http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml</url> or
<url>http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/mime-types-full</url> with
<code>tbls = readHTMLTable("http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/mime-types.shtml")
  tmp = tbls[[1]][-1,]
  mimeTypeExtensions = structure(as.character(tmp[[2]]), names = gsub("^\.", "", tmp[[1]]))
  save(mimeTypeExtensions, file = "data/mimeTypeExtensions.rda")</code>
The IANA list is not as convenient to programmatically compile.
<url>http://www.ltsw.se/knbase/internet/mime.htp</url>

mimeTypeExtensions: Mapping from extension to MIME type

Description

Usage

Arguments

format

source

Examples