Method

SoupContentSniffersniff

Declaration [src] 

char*
soup_content_sniffer_sniff (
  SoupContentSniffer* sniffer,
  SoupMessage* msg,
  GBytes* buffer,
  GHashTable** params
)

Description [src]

Sniffs buffer to determine its Content-Type.

The result may also be influenced by the Content-Type declared in msg‘s response headers.

Parameters

msg

Type: SoupMessage

The message to sniff.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
buffer

Type: GBytes

A buffer containing the start of msg‘s response body.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
params

Type: GHashTable

Return location for Content-Type parameters (eg, “charset”), or NULL.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be set to NULL by the method.
The instance takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: char*

The sniffed Content-Type of buffer; this will never be NULL, but may be application/octet-stream.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.