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Appendix H: MIME Media Types 772 video message model application For example, the text main type contains types of plain-text files, such as: text/plain for plain text files text/html for HTML files text/rtf for text files using rich text formatting MIME... More

Appendix H: MIME Media Types 772 video message model application For example, the text main type contains types of plain-text files, such as: text/plain for plain text files text/html for HTML files text/rtf for text files using rich text formatting MIME types are officially supposed to be assigned and listed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Many of the popular MIME types in this list (all those that begin with “x-”) are not assigned by the IANA and do not have official status. (Having said that, I should mention that some of these are very popular and browsers support them, such as audio/x-mp3. You can see the list of official MIME types at www. iana. org/assignments/media-types/). Those preceded with . vnd are vendor-specific. The most popular MIME types are listed in this appendix in a bold typeface to help you find them. text Note that, when specifying the MIME type of a content-type field (for example in a <meta> element), you can also indicate the characte Less