<h1 id="media-mime-types">Media (MIME) types<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#media-mime-types"></a></h1>
<p>Media types, or MIME types, describe document types. They provide a more precise way of expressing the type of a given piece of content over a file extension.</p>
<h1 id="format">Format<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#format"></a></h1>
<p>A MIME type is comprised of a type, which defines the broad category within which the subtype falls, followed by a subtype. Optionally, parameters can be appended to the MIME type for additional precision.</p>
<pre class="language-text"><code class="language-text">type/subtype[; parameter1=value[; parameter2=value]]
</code></pre>
<h1 id="types">Types<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#types"></a></h1>
<p>Types are divided into two categories:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Discrete</strong> types are transferred in their entirety.</li>
<li><strong>Multipart</strong> types are broken into partial fragments.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="discrete-types">Discrete types<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#discrete-types"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li><code>application</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>octet-stream</code></li>
<li><code>pdf</code></li>
<li><code>zip</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>audio</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>mpeg</code></li>
<li><code>vorbis</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>example</code> (placeholder):</li>
<li><code>font</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>otf</code></li>
<li><code>ttf</code></li>
<li><code>woff</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>image</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>jpeg</code></li>
<li><code>png</code></li>
<li><code>svg+xml</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>model</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>3mf</code></li>
<li><code>vml</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>text</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>csv</code></li>
<li><code>plain</code></li>
<li><code>html</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>video</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>mp4</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="multipart-types">Multipart types<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#multipart-types"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li><code>message</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>rfc822</code></li>
<li><code>partial</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>multipart</code>:
<ul>
<li><code>byteranges</code></li>
<li><code>form-data</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h1 id="parameters">Parameters<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#parameters"></a></h1>
<p>Common parameters in the wild:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>charset</code> specifies a document's character set (encoding):
<ul>
<li><code>UTF-8</code></li>
<li><code>US-ASCII</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/0679b21d-842b-4310-b791-da4ebc1c9574">HTTP (public)</a></li>
<li><a href="/notes/a27db023-22c8-4d4b-a60c-53f4396345ff">CDN (public)</a></li>
</ul>

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