MIME Types

Originally described for Internet Mail. Now also used by Web. Describe type and format of contents. Allow browsers to automatically call appropriate plug-in (the software which will display something within a browser) or helper application (the software which will display in something in separate window). Popular MIME types (Content-Type):

• text/plain -- plain, unmarked text
• text/html -- text with HTML mark-up
• text/xml -- XML markup
• image/jpeg -- JPEG picture
• application/pdf -- Portable Document Format file
• application/octet-stream -- unstructured binary data to be saved.
• video/mpeg -- video
• video/quicktime -- video
• audio/x-wav -- audio
• application/x-www-form-urlencoded -- data from the form sent from browser to server for regular forms
• multipart/form-data -- data from the form sent from browser to server when you do file upload