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Thread: QWebView: QMimeDatabase mimeTypeForUrl always returns "application/octet-stream"

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    Default QWebView: QMimeDatabase mimeTypeForUrl always returns "application/octet-stream"

    I have a QWebView and am trying to determine the mime type of a clicked link, so I can hand-off the loading of a PDF, for example.

    So, in my browser subclass, I handle a link click:

    Qt Code:
    1. connect(this, &QWebView::linkClicked, this, &BrowserView::onLinkClicked);
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    1. void BrowserView::onLinkClicked(const QUrl & url)
    2. {
    3. QMimeDatabase mime;
    4. qDebug() << "mime type" << mime.mimeTypeForUrl(url).name();
    5. ...
    6. }
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    The problem is, the mime type always comes back as "application/octet-stream", which is the default if Qt can't parse the mime-type.

    However, I'm clicking on links which are known PDF files. For example, any of the links here: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=example+pdf

    Isn't there a way to get the mime type from a URL for a known type, like a PDF?

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    Default Re: QWebView: QMimeDatabase mimeTypeForUrl always returns "application/octet-stream"

    You could try using QNetworkAccessManager::head() to get the MIME type (HTTP content type) from the webserver.

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