How to know the file type of the file which you are forcing the user to download?

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Published on 2010-05-25T07:54:41Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 8:01 UTC
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I am trying to force the user to download a file. For that my script is:

$file = "file\this.zip";        
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
header("Content-Type: application/zip"); //This is what I need
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
readfile($file);

The files I am going to upload my not be .zip all the time so I want to know the content type of the image I am going to receive in $file. How to accomplish this

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