Lucee Function Reference

filegetmimetype()

Returns the mimetype of the given file

Example

filegetmimetype(any file,[boolean strict]):string

Arguments

The arguments for this function are set. You can not use other arguments except the following ones.
Name Type Required Default Value Description
file any  Yes   file path or object  
strict boolean  No true if set to true, Lucee checks the header of the file, when set to false, Lucee only checks the extension.
When true, an empty or non existent file will throw an error.
Lucee uses Apache Tika for detection, but only the basic core version and does not include the full suite of tika parsers due to their size.