45 MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It's a way of identifying files on the Internet according to their nature and format. For example, using the Content-type header value defined in a HTTP response, the browser can open the file with the proper extension/ plugin. Internet Media Type (also Content-type) is the same as a ...
The MIME type is a description of the data returned by a request on the Internet (originally used by e-mail, and later used by many parts of the web). Since data can take hundreds (if not thousands) of forms, both textual and binary, it helps a program to know what type of data it is dealing with, rather than trying to write code that figures it out automatically. The program can use this data ...
The standard Media Type (formerly known as MIME types) is application/pdf. The assignment is defined in RFC 3778, The application/pdf Media Type, referenced from the Media Types registry. Media Types are controlled by a standards body, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This is the same organization that manages the root name servers and the IP address space. The use of x-pdf ...
What MIME type should I use for new .docx documents? Also, for pptx and xlsx documents? excel ms-word ms-office powerpoint mime-types edited Feb 11, 2021 at 20:43 Peter Mortensen 31.4k22110134 asked Nov 18, 2010 at 8:25 Richard Knop 84.2k155402564 15 If you using linux, you can make use of this command file -bi YOUR_FILE ajreal – ajreal 2010 ...
25 How to recognize a valid MIME type? IANA maintains a list of all registered media types and subtypes. MIME types follow a format: media-type/subtype-identifier. Example: image/png. The x- prefix of a subtype-identifier indicates that it is experimental and non-standard (not registered with IANA). Now about the zip specifically...
Of course, the correct MIME media type for JSON is application/json, but it's necessary to realize what type of data is expected in your application. For example, I use Java Ext GWT and the server response must go as text/html but contains JSON data.
Apache httpd.conf uses server side javascript MIME to configure things like: - - ForceType (For non-suffixed or non-standard files), - Output Filters (Like minifiers, gzip, compress, and anything else that needs to ID data type by MIME). Also, Id give a -1 to anyone using server side javascript, and the advise: get serious and dont be afraid to learn.
What is the most appropriate media type (formally MIME type) to use when sending data structured with YAML over HTTP and why? There is no registered application type or text type that I can see. Ex...
