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MIME types are officially supposed to be assigned and listed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

The main type is separated from the subtype by a forward slash character. MIME content types consist of two parts − Now MIME types are not just for use with e-mail they have been adopted by Web servers as a way to tell Web browsers what type of material was being sent to them so that they can cope with that kind of messages correctly. The way different items are encoded for transmission so that even software that was designed to work only with ASCII text can process the message. The way in which each part of the message is specified. How different parts of a message, such as text and attachments, are combined into the message. MIME media types indicate the following things − But the addition of the Content-Disposition Header describes the structure of mail-in presentation styles.MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) media types were originally devised so that e-mails could include information other than plain text. Original MIME specification only describes the structure of mail without any presentation style. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the official authority for the standardization and publication of these classifications. Here before the slash is the main type and after the slash is the subtype. Some common examples of media types are as follows: 1. The main type separates the sub-type by a slash.Įxamples of Main types: application, audio, font, image, message, textĮxamples of Subtypes: html, xml, zip, pdf, xls