| Term: | MIMEType |
| Definition: |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)type and sub-type which characterizes the format of a file. MIME media typesare define in RFC memorandum RFC 2046. Current MIME types are maintained byInternet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) athttp://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html. Commonly used MIMEtypes are: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint (ppt, pptx),application/vnd.ms-excel (xls, xlsx), text/richtext (rtx),application/postscript (eps, ps), application/pdf (pdf), application/xml-dtd(dtd), text/html (htm, html), text/xml (xsl, xml, xsd), application/x-dvi(dvi). If a document is compressed the specified MIME type should be for theuncompressed document. |