• The type describes the categorization of MIME types that are linked to each other. • In contrast, a subtype is unique to a specific file type that is part of the 'type.' Here is the MIME type for HTML: text/html MIME types are defined in HTML by the type attribute on links, objects, and script and style tags. Distinguishing Between MIME Types What follows is a list of most of the MIME types, with their file extensions and the application that uses them.
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Aug 15, 2012 - However, in reality a lot of web servers are simply returning application/octet-stream, with a file extension of '.pdf'. Those links trigger the.
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Many computers use file extensions to help the computer identify the file type. So, if you have a file with an odd extension on your website, you can look up the MIME type in this list. Some types are prefixed with X and some are prefixed with VND.
These prefixes, respectively, refer to sub-types not listed with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority or values specific to a vendor.
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11 years ago User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/ Iceweasel/3.0.1 (Debian-3.0.1-1) Build Identifier: Some mail applications out there (especially web mailers) send PDF attachments with content-type application/octet-stream instead of application/pdf. When you open such a mail, Thunderbird only looks at the MIME header and does not open acroread when it encounters application/octet-stream.