MIME Doubt

[Mike Thomson]

I have an application which can uplodad any type of files with whaever formats/extensions like .doc,.zip,.ppt,.pdf,.txt... I am storing this files in the db using blob and also I can able to retrieve the fiel from db to the local disk. I have written a servlet which can read the file from the local disk. But I don't know how to set the setContentType for different extensions. Whether I have to set the contentType differently for different file types or any other way to do it.
For example:
Below code is for word document to be read:

response.setContentType("application/ms-word");

For .ppt / .txt / .pdf, whether I have to change the contentType or some any common contentType is available for use

[mani vannann]

Hi mike,
Please try this,
response.setContentType("APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM");

[Ben Souther]

See ServletContext.getMimeType
which will give you access to the same mechanism that the container uses to set mime types by file extension when it serves up static files.