getContentType

String scrapeableFile.getContentType ( )

Description

Retrieve the POST payload type being used to interpret the page. This can be important with scraping some site's implementation of AJAX, where the payload in explicitly set as xml.

Parameters

This method does not receive any parameters.

Return Values

Returns the content type, as a string (e.g., text/html or text/xml).

Change Log

Version Description
5.0 Available for all editions.

Examples

Write Content Type to Log

// Write to log
session.log( "Content Type: " + scrapeableFile.getContentType( "text/xml" ) );

See Also