How to return a file result when I don't know the content type

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Published on 2010-03-30T04:09:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 4:13 UTC
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I have an asp.net mvc action that returns a file result. Behind the scenes, it's just returning a file from a directory. FilePathResult requires a content type, but I don't know that.

What is the proper way to return a file result if I only have the path to the file available?

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