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Answer by Merlyn Morgan-Graham for What is MIME? What is it for exactly?

The MIME type is a description of the data returned by a request on the Internet (originally used by e-mail, and later used by many parts of the web).Since data can take hundreds (if not thousands) of...

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Answer by Edwin Buck for What is MIME? What is it for exactly?

It's a way of describing a document (or file).Programs like mail readers and web browsers use the "mime-type" of a document to determine how to handle it.Each mime type is a string that describes...

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Answer by Matt Howell for What is MIME? What is it for exactly?

An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such...

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What is MIME? What is it for exactly?

I was reading an article on COMET recently I have came across many times the word MIME? I googled it found that MIME is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. And also i came across the...

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