Detecting MIME type of a shared file

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:18:05AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>  > how can I tell what kind of file I am receiving when
>  > someone shares a file with me?
>
>  You might examine python's mimetypes module or the 'file' command.

I think you can also add that mime type to the tube's metadata and
read it from the receiving side?

Tomeu