How to get Content-Type when uploading file from flash - is it possible?

Question

Hi,

we have a small flash component on our website/application to upload multiple files. This works fine, however we want to get the Content-Type from the headers and its always set to 'application/octet-stream'. From what I've learned this is due to a security of flash sandbox and FileUpLoad will never give this to us.

Is there any other way we could do this in flash (aside from creating an html/ajax multi file upload)?

many thanks

Answer 1

We have had a simlar problem when uploading from a browser. What is sent in the content type is dependent upon the browser and what is installed on the client machine. If it is an extension that the client machine does not recognise it will come back as application/octet-stream.

What we ended up doing was creating mapping functionality from the file extension to the content type. That way we could ensure consistency.