HttpRequest.ContentType Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the MIME content type of the incoming request.

public:
 property System::String ^ ContentType { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public string ContentType { get; set; }

member this.ContentType : string with get, set

Public Property ContentType As String

Property Value

String

A string representing the MIME content type of the incoming request, for example, "text/html". Additional common MIME types include "audio.wav", "image/gif", and "application/pdf".

Examples

The following code example assigns the value representing the content type of the incoming request to a string variable.

String str;
 str = Request.ContentType;

Dim str As String
 str = Request.ContentType
   

The following example shows output that might be produced by this code.

GET

127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1

GET