Java checks if BufferedImage GIF

Question

Is it possible to determine if an BufferedImageimage (read from a URL) is an image GIF? I want to check the MIME type, not the .gif file extension.

thank

Answer 1

read the first bytes of the url, if it is a GIF image, it should begin with a "magic word": GIF89a

Answer 2

The following codes will tell you which image stream format

public static String read(InputStream input) throws IOException {
    ImageInputStream stream = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(input);

    Iterator iter = ImageIO.getImageReaders(stream);
    if (!iter.hasNext()) {
        return null;
    }
    ImageReader reader = (ImageReader) iter.next();
    ImageReadParam param = reader.getDefaultReadParam();
    reader.setInput(stream, true, true);
    BufferedImage bi;
    try {
        bi = reader.read(0, param);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        reader.dispose();
        try {
            stream.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return reader.getFormatName();
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    URL url = new URL("http://p1.pstatp.com/large/efa0004d2238045fb9f");
    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    connection.setConnectTimeout(3000);
    connection.setReadTimeout(3000);
    InputStream in = null;
    try {
        in = connection.getInputStream();
        String format = read(in);
        System.out.print(format);
    } catch (Exception e) {

    }
}

Conclusion:

GIF