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What is MIME?

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MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. 


MIME types represents a standard way of classifying file types over Internet. 


Web servers and browsers have a list of MIME types, which facilitates files transfer of the same type in the same way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.


A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). 


MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword, i.e. application/msword.

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