MIME actually stands for “Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions” initially started to solve the problem of email attachments but now web browsers are using it to communicate with Web Server files.
Web Browsers does not recognize the file by using its extension. Sometime we even do not need to specify the extension. Browser basically go and see content-type of that file. Content-Type tells browser that what type of file content it contains.
Following are some examples.
| Content Type | extension | description |
| text/html | .html | Web Page |
| image/png | .png | PNG image |
| image/jpeg | .jpeg | JPEG image |
| application/x-silverlight-app | .xap | Silverlight xap file |
Filed under: Web/HTML, content-type, extension, internet, mail, MIME, mime types, multimedia
