HTTP protocol Learning (i)

The Web server appends a data format label for all HTTP object data with a MIME type (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension type multi-purpose Internet Message extension types).

When the browser retrieves an object from the Web server, it looks at the relevant MIME type to see if it knows what to do with the object. Most browsers can handle hundreds of common types:

HTML format is marked by the text/html type

Normal ASCII text is marked by the Text/plain type

The JPEG type is marked by the Image/jpeg type

GIF type is marked by the Image/gif type

Apple's QuickTime movie for Voide/quicktime type

Microsoft's PowerPoint by Application/vnd.ms-powerpoint type

There are hundreds of common and used mime.

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HTTP protocol Learning (i)