October 02, 2015

Difference between MIME-Type and Content-Type

□ Content-Type

○ The format of data to be transferred
○ This is also used in the header of the MIME protocol
○ This is commonly expressed as a MIME-Type format

□ MIME-Type
○ This is a way to express Content-Type
○ Registration of MIME-Type is managed by IANA.
○ In this IANA, it is called "Media Types"
○ 8 types : application, audio, image, message, model, multipart, text, video
○ it is expressed as "Message type / Sub message type"(IANA Media-Type Check[LINK])
- image/png
- text/html
- text/css
- video/mp4
- audio/mpeg