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MIME type

A file identification based on the MIME encoding system. The MIME type has become the de facto standard for identifying content on the Internet. For example, in order to identify the type of attachment sent in an e-mail message, its MIME type is embedded in the message header. Web servers send the MIME type to the requesting browser so that it can launch the appropriate helper application or plug-in.

The MIME "Content Type" has a type and subtype separated by a slash; for example, text/plain and image/gif. The major types are application, audio, image, text and video. Application refers to a variety of formats; for example, application/x-pdf refers to Adobe Acrobat documents, and application/octet-stream refers to an .EXE file. See MIME.

(file format, protocol, multimedia)

MIME type - The unique identifier used for different file types when conveyed across a MIME-based protocol such as MIME e-mail or HTTP.

Registration of MIME types is explained in RFC 2048.

Official MIME types.

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The Windows registry is your operating system''s master database that stores all of the information about all of the software, hardware, user profiles, network settings, operating system behavior, mime types, and system security associated with your PC.

Repair Internet Explorer 7 by Dawn Woods / Computers and Internet community

Perhaps the most well-known example of a format registry is the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) MIME type registry (Freed, Klensin, & Postel, 1996).

Establishing a global digital format registry by Abrams, Stephen L. / Library Trends

The group warned of "a number" of "significant" vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX.

US Government Warns on Internet Explorer by Computergram International