If you want the MIME type for a file, you can use the following code:
- (NSString *)mimeTypeForPath:(NSString *)path
{
// get a mime type for an extension using MobileCoreServices.framework
CFStringRef extension = (__bridge CFStringRef)[path pathExtension];
CFStringRef UTI = UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension, extension, NULL);
assert(UTI != NULL);
NSString *mimetype = CFBridgingRelease(UTTypeCopyPreferredTagWithClass(UTI, kUTTagClassMIMEType));
assert(mimetype != NULL);
CFRelease(UTI);
return mimetype;
}
In the case of a ZIP file, this will return application/zip.