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| − | A '''mime-type''' or '''Internet media type''' is a two-part identifier for [[File Formats|file formats]] on the [[Internet]].
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| − | The identifiers were originally defined in RFC 2046 for use in email sent through [[Simple Mail Transfer Protocol|SMTP]], but their use has expanded to other protocols such as [[HTTP]], [[Real-time Transport Protocol|RTP]] and [[Session Initiation Protocol|SIP]]. These types were called '''MIME types''', and are sometimes referred to as '''Content-types''', after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such a type. The original name '''MIME type''' referred to usage to identify non-ASCII parts of email messages composed using the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) specification. Without MIME types, email clients would not be able to understand if an attachment file were a graphics file or a spreadsheet etc. and would not be able to handle the attachment appropriately.
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| − | ==Sources==
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| − | * [[Wikipedia:Internet media type|Wikipedia article]]
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| − | * RFC 2045
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| − | * RFC 2046
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| − | * RFC 4288
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| − | * [http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html IANA list of MIME types]
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