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| MIME types (content types) tell the browser what to do with content sent to it. | | See [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types Properly Configuring Server MIME Types] at [http://developer.mozilla.org MDC]. |
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| == Common MIME types ==
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| {|{{prettytable}}
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| ! MIME Type
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| ! Result
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| |application/octet-stream
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| |Download
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| |text/plain
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| |Display as plain text
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| |text/html
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| |Render as HTML
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| == Results of sending as the wrong type ==
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| Sending the wrong MIME type can result in a file being downloaded instead of displayed, displayed instead of downloaded, or displayed improperly. You can see what MIME type your server is sending by using "Tools -> Page Info" in Firefox ("View -> Page Info" in Mozilla Suite) or you can use the [http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ Live HTTP Headers extension]. Internet Explorer uses non-standard and insecure "sniffing" to sometimes override what the server tells it, so the oversight is not always apparent at first.
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| == Configuring MIME types ==
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| *[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/mimeiis.mspx&ei=Y6oCQ6TmOYaW-gGryKzWAg MIME Types in IIS]
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| *[http://bignosebird.com/apache/a1.shtml Apache MIME Types]
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| == Server-side scripts ==
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| If you are using a server-side scripting language to generate content, the appropriate [http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset content-type] response header must be sent as well as the content itself. How this is accomplished depends on what language is being used. The following is an example using [http://www.perl.org/ Perl]:
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| <pre>print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";
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| print "<title>Hello World!</title>\n";
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| print "<p>Hello World!</p>\n";
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| print "</html>\n";</pre>
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| The first line of the above Perl script will identify the content as text/html and the browser will render it as such. Refer to the documentation of your scripting language for information about sending the appropriate content-type.
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| ==Related links==
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| * [http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/mimetypes.html How Mozilla determines MIME Types]
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| * [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Properly_Configuring_Server_MIME_Types Properly Configuring Server MIME Types]
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| * [http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-headers-charset Checking HTTP Headers]
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| * [http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset The HTTP content-type/charset parameter]
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| * [http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/winmime.html MIME Type list and related plugins - PluginDoc]
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