This module can be used to determine the mime type of a file. It tries to implement the freedesktop specification for a shared MIME database. For this module shared-mime-info-spec 0.12 was used. This package only uses the globs file. No real magic checking is used. The File::MimeInfo::Magic package is provided for magic typing. If you want to detemine the mimetype of data in a memory buffer you should use File::MimeInfo::Magic in combination with IO::Scalar. WWW: htto://search.cpan.org/dist/File-MimeInfo/