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Author	corona10
Recipients	corona10, vstinner
Date	2020-06-02.06:42:44
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The current mimetypes.guess_type API guesses file types based on file extensions. However, there is a more accurate method which is calling sniffing. Some languages like Go(https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#DetectContentType) provides mimesniff API and the method is implemented based on a standard way which is published on https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/ I have a sample code implementation this https://github.com/corona10/mimesniff/blob/master/mimesniff/mimesniff.py But the API interface will be changed to mimetypes API. So I would like to provide mimetypes.sniff API rather than a new stdlib package like mimesniff.

The current mimetypes.guess_type API guesses file types based on file extensions.

However, there is a more accurate method which is calling sniffing.

Some languages like Go(https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#DetectContentType) provides mimesniff API and the method is implemented based on a standard way which is published on https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/


I have a sample code implementation this
https://github.com/corona10/mimesniff/blob/master/mimesniff/mimesniff.py
But the API interface will be changed to mimetypes API.


So I would like to provide mimetypes.sniff API rather than a new stdlib package like mimesniff.

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