MIME

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Created: User:Axs (07 Sep 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (27 Jul 2012)

MIME stands for the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions and is an Internet Standard for extending the format of electronic mail. In most cases, the MIME types are used for categorizing and describing binary contents of a file or an electronic message.

MIME is specified in six RFCs : RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 4288, RFC 4289 and RFC 2077.

External links

• List of IANA registered MIME Media Types
• List of Character Sets
• W3 School's Multimedia MIME Reference

References

This article is based on the Wikipedia article for MIME.