Web HTTP
Also known as: Media Type or Content Type
MIME stands for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions.
When we send data to a software which requires MIME type information other than data , we include MIME type which tells the receiving software how to handle the data.
Typically MIME types form a standard way of classifying data types on the Internet.
A MIME type has two parts: a top level type and a subtype, (and sometimes an optional parameters).
The two types are separated by a slash (/).
The two parts are needed just to classify a sub time under top level type.
For example application/xml, is MIME type for a XML file.
The currently common top-level type names are: application, image, message, model, multipart, text, video.
Sub-type name typically consists of a media type name
Some MIME types:
- text/html used for HTML file.
- text/csv used for CSV file.
- text/plain used for text data.
- text/x-java-source used for Java source file.
- Application/Pdf used for PDF file.
- application/json used for JSON data.
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