diff --git a/MD_STD.php b/MD_STD.php
index 2438ed8..fe93d44 100644
--- a/MD_STD.php
+++ b/MD_STD.php
@@ -378,6 +378,27 @@ final class MD_STD {
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Wrapper around the finfo functions to get the mime content type of a file.
+     *
+     * @param string $filepath Expected file path.
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public static function mime_content_type(string $filepath):string {
+
+        if (!($finfo = \finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE))) {
+            throw new Exception("Cannot open finfo context");
+        }
+        if (!($mime_type = finfo_file($finfo, $filepath))) {
+            throw new MDWrongFileType("Cannot get mime type of file: " . basename($filepath));
+        }
+        \finfo_close($finfo);
+
+        return $mime_type;
+
+    }
+
     /**
      * Checks if a file exists, with one of the expected mime types.
      *
@@ -397,13 +418,7 @@ final class MD_STD {
             return;
         }
 
-        if (!($finfo = \finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE))) {
-            throw new Exception("Cannot open finfo context");
-        }
-        if (!($mime_type = finfo_file($finfo, $filepath))) {
-            throw new MDWrongFileType("Cannot get mime type of file: " . basename($filepath));
-        }
-        \finfo_close($finfo);
+        $mime_type = self::mime_content_type($filepath);
 
         if (!\in_array($mime_type, $accepted_mimetype, true)) {
             throw new MDWrongFileType("Incorrect mime type of file " . \basename($filepath) . ". Mime type is " . \mime_content_type($filepath) . ", accepted any of ['" . \implode("', '", $accepted_mimetype) . "']");