// Package http provides functions for detecting a request or a file content type. package http import ( "fmt" "net/http" "os" "strings" ) // ContentType is a string which represents a content type. type ContentType string const ( // PDFContentType represents... the PDF content type. PDFContentType ContentType = "application/pdf" // HTMLContentType represents... the HTML content type. HTMLContentType ContentType = "text/html" // OctetStreamContentType represents... the octet stream content type. OctetStreamContentType ContentType = "application/octet-stream" // ZipContentType represents... the zip content type. ZipContentType ContentType = "application/zip" // MultipartFormDataContentType represents... the multipart form data content type. MultipartFormDataContentType ContentType = "multipart/form-data" ) type notAuthorizedContentTypeError struct{} func (e *notAuthorizedContentTypeError) Error() string { return fmt.Sprintf("Accepted values for 'Content-Type': %s, %s", OctetStreamContentType, MultipartFormDataContentType) } // FindAuthorizedContentType tries to return a content type according to a request header. // If no authorized content type found, throws an error. func FindAuthorizedContentType(h http.Header) (ContentType, error) { ct := findContentType(h.Get("Content-Type"), OctetStreamContentType, MultipartFormDataContentType) if ct == "" { return "", ¬AuthorizedContentTypeError{} } return ct, nil } type notAuthorizedFileContentTypeError struct{} const notAuthorizedFileContentTypeErrorMessage = "Unable to detect an authorized file content type" func (e *notAuthorizedFileContentTypeError) Error() string { return notAuthorizedFileContentTypeErrorMessage } // SniffContentType tries to detect the content type of a file. // If no authorized content type found, throws an error. func SniffContentType(f *os.File) (ContentType, error) { // only the first 512 bytes are used to sniff the content type. buffer := make([]byte, 512) n, err := f.Read(buffer) if err != nil { return "", err } // resets the read pointer. f.Seek(0, 0) // using n if size of buffer < 512 bytes. ct := findContentType(http.DetectContentType(buffer[:n]), PDFContentType, HTMLContentType, OctetStreamContentType, ZipContentType) if ct == "" { return "", ¬AuthorizedFileContentTypeError{} } return ct, nil } // findContentType parses a string representing a content type and tries to find // one of the given content types. func findContentType(contentType string, contentTypes ...ContentType) ContentType { for _, ct := range contentTypes { if i := strings.IndexRune(contentType, ';'); i != -1 { contentType = contentType[0:i] } if contentType == string(ct) { return ct } } return "" }