Alternative to Files.probeContentType?

Take a look at the Apache Tika. It can easily determine a mime type:

 Tika tika = new Tika();
 File file = ...
 String mimeType = tika.detect(file);

Here's a minimal required maven dependency:

 <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
    <artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.12</version>
 </dependency>

This answer suggests using:

InputStream is = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
mimeType = URLConnection.guessContentTypeFromStream(is);
//...close stream

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