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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:
applicationaudioimagemessagemodelmultiparttextvideo
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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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
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AbbreviationZ: Internet Mime TypesA 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
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Apache conf/mime.typesComplete 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
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mod_mimeAn 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
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XML Media TypesRFC3023 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
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MIME Part Two: Media TypesThis 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
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XHTML Media TypesThis 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
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RFC2468: I Remember IANAA 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
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