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Web Developer Resource Index: Media Types

Media Types, or MIME types, are a form of Metadata that identifies the content of documents and other resources available on the Internet. Resources are classified according to eight major categories, and then further divided into a larger set of minor sub-categories. For instance, a standard HTML Web document is stored as plain text, and is obviously an HTML resource, so its media type (as an HTTP header) is designated as:

Content-type: text/html

The complete set of MIME media types are assigned and listed by the IANA. The eight major classifications are:

1. application
2. audio
3. image
4. message
5. model
6. multipart
7. text
8. video

For additional examples, I store a subset of the Media Types used by this Web site in a MySQL table.

Updated: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 @ 1:53 AM EDT

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• 1.IANA: MIME Media Types

  RFC 2045 and 2046 specifies that content types, content subtypes, character sets, access types, and conversion values for MIME mail will be assigned and listed by the IANA. Note that the author link is in fact a memorial. [136]

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  URI:http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
  Author:
  Jon Postel
  [1]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 6:37 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  IANA: MIME Media Types media typesmimerfc
   

• 2.AbbreviationZ: Internet Mime Types

  A searchable listing of media types by file extension with descriptions, plus many other abbreviations and acronyms. [1010]

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  URI:http://www.abbreviationz.com/bc.asp?c=MIMETYPES
  Author:
  Yigal Ben Efraim
  [1]
  Reviewed:Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 @ 3:24 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  AbbreviationZ: Internet Mime Types media types
   

• 3.Apache conf/mime.types

  Complete listing of all MIME content/media types and their file extensions used by the Apache HTTP Web server. Allows you to jump to any entry with a fragment identifier. [268]

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  URI:http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/docs/conf/mime.types
  Author:
  LXR Source Code Engine
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 17th, 2005 @ 2:19 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Apache conf/mime.types apachemedia typesmime
   

• 4.mod_mime

  An Apache module used to determine the media type that is returned to the browser, or used in content-negotiation within the server. In addition, a "handler" can be set which determines how the document will be processed within the server. [267]

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  URI:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_mime.html
  Author:
  Apache Project Members
  [6]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 17th, 2005 @ 1:18 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  mod_mime apachemedia typesmimemodule
   

• 5.XML Media Types

  RFC3023 standardizes five new media types for use in exchanging network entities that are related to XML, and a convention using the suffix "+xml" for naming other media types types when they represent XML MIME entities. [266]

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  URI:http://mirror.switch.ch/cgi-bin/search/nph-findstd?pattern=3023
  Author:
  Makoto Murata
  [1]
  Reviewed:Saturday, April 16th, 2005 @ 11:03 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XML Media Types media typesmimerfcxhtmlxml
   

• 6.MIME Part Two: Media Types

  This document defines the general structure of the MIME media typing system and defines an initial set of media types. [139]

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  URI:http://mirror.switch.ch/cgi-bin/search/nph-findstd?pattern=2046
  Author:
  Ned Freed
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 @ 4:24 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  MIME Part Two: Media Types media typesmime
   

• 7.XHTML Media Types

  This document summarizes the best current practice for using various Internet media types for serving XHTML family documents. [138]

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  URI:http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
  Author:
  Ishikawa Masayasu
  [2]
  Reviewed:Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 7:34 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  XHTML Media Types media typesxhtml
   

• 8.RFC2468: I Remember IANA

  A long time ago, in a network, far far away, a great adventure took place! [137]

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  URI:http://mirror.switch.ch/cgi-bin/search/nph-findstd?pattern=2468
  Author:
  Vinton G. Cerf
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 @ 4:24 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  RFC2468: I Remember IANA internetmedia typesmimerfc
   

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