Friday, December 17, 2004

Where are Mime Types?

Where can you find mime types?
In a box on IANA!

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigns and list all mime types. So what is a a mime type?

MIME is a standard for describing different types of information This was originally meant to be used to specify encoding for different types of information into text. This made it possible to send them as e-mail. (source: LANTech)