Using python-requests and python-magic, I would like to test the mime-type of a web resource without fetching all its content (especially if this resource happens to be eg. an ogg file or a PDF file). Based on the result, I might decide to fetch it all. However calling the text method after having tested the mime-type only returns what hasn't been consumed yet. How could I test the mime-type without consuming the response content?
Below is my current code.
import requests
import magic
r = requests.get("http://www.december.com/html/demo/hello.html", prefetch=False)
mime = magic.from_buffer(r.iter_content(256).next(), mime=True)
if mime == "text/html":
print(r.text) # I'd like r.text to give me the entire response content
Thanks!
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