A MIME type is a label used to identify a type of data. It is used so software can know how to handle the data. It serves the same purpose on the Internet that file extensions do on Microsoft Windows. So if a server says "This is text/html" the client can go "Ah, this is an HTML document, I can render that internally", while if the server says "This is application/pdf" the client can go "Ah, I ...
An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such a type, is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet.
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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.
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 at 20:43 Peter Mortensen 31.1k22111134 asked at 8:25 Richard Knop 84.3k155404564 15 If you using linux, you can make use of this command file -bi YOUR_FILE ajreal – ajreal 2010-11-18 08:40:12 +00:00 CommentedNov 18, 2010 at 8:40 9
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... application/zip is a standard MIME type for zip files ...