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Hi!

I'm using a database to store images as raw binary.
I can extract this as a byte[] array.
This works well, but to display the image (e.g. on a webpage) I need to know the MIME type, e.g. 'image/gif'

Is there any way of extracting this from the binary data?
I could store this as a separate field, but this is wasteful if it's already there in the binary.

Any ideas?

TIA,
John

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