MIME Content Types

• This is how the server tells the client what type of data is being returned.

• Consist of a type (such as “text”) and a subtype (such as “html”)

• Typical MIME Content Types include:

  • text/plain (preformatted text)
  • text/html (marked up HTML text)
  • application/binary (unspecified binary data)
  • application/postscript (PostScript data)
  • image/gif
  • image/jpeg
  • audio/basic
  • video/mpeg

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