Security News
How Threat Actors are Abusing GitHub’s File Upload Feature to Host Malware
GitHub is susceptible to a CDN flaw that allows attackers to host malware on any public repository.
mime-format
Advanced tools
Readme
Simple module to lookup the base format of HTTP response bodies from the content-type
header. This module helps disambiguate the nature of the content, especially between text/*
and application/*
. The basic seven content type bases as defined RFC1341 are:
However, from the content-type base, it is not easy to determine which formats are exactly "textual" in nature. For example, "text/json" as well as "application/json" are textual. This module disambiguates the same by maintaining a database of textual contents served over "application/*" content types.
npm install mime-format --save-dev;
var mimeFormat = require('mime-format');
console.log(mimeFormat.lookup('application/xml; charset=gBk'));
// outputs
// {
// "type": "text",
// "format": "xml"
// "charset": "gBk"
// }
When the content type is not in internal db, it looks for keywords in content type for best match. Under those
circumstances, you will see a guessed: true
property returned. In case even guess failed, you get unknown: true
and
format: 'raw'
will be sent.
If the contentType argument is not a string, then the detection is attempted by typecasting it to String.
Format is a secondary information for type: 'text' and 'embed
. For texts, the format highlights what syntax the text
is in. Additionally, it doubles up to let you know text was not detected by returning value raw
. For most cases this
is redundant.
FAQs
Database to mime-format based on content-type header and content
The npm package mime-format receives a total of 619,402 weekly downloads. As such, mime-format popularity was classified as popular.
We found that mime-format demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Security News
GitHub is susceptible to a CDN flaw that allows attackers to host malware on any public repository.
Security News
At Node Congress, Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh uncovers the darker aspects of open source, where applications that rely heavily on third-party dependencies can be exploited in supply chain attacks.
Research
Security News
The Socket Research team found this npm package includes code for collecting sensitive developer information, including your operating system username, Git username, and Git email.