How to determine if a given URL link is a video or image?

Question

I\'m trying to take a given URL entered by user and determine if the URL is pointing to a image or a video.

Example use case:

When a user paste in the URL o

Answer 1

This is a solution without apache.

HttpURLConnection urlConnection;
String urlString = "http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0";
try {
    urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(urlString).openConnection();
    urlConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
    HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);

    int status = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
    if (status >= 300 && status <= 307) {
        urlString = urlConnection.getHeaderField("Location");
        urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(urlString).openConnection();
        System.out.println("Redirect to URL : " + urlString);
    }
    String contentType = urlConnection.getHeaderField("Content-Type");
    if (contentType.startsWith("image/")) {
        //do something with an image
    } else if (contentType.equals("application/x-shockwave-flash")) {
        //do something with a video
        //} else ...
    }
    System.out.println(contentType);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

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