MIME Types - Summary List
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) extend the format of e-mail to support text in character sets, non-text attachments, multi-part message bodies and header information in non-ASCII character sets.
The chart below is by no means a complete list - a complete list runs to pages and pages (often containing very obscure MIME types that you will never have cause to use). For more information about the many MIME-types, refer to http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
| Suffixes applicable | Media type and subtype(s) |
|---|---|
| .au | audio/basic |
| .avi | video/msvideo, video/avi, video/x-msvideo |
| .bmp | image/bmp |
| .bz2 | application/x-bzip2 |
| .css | text/css |
| .dtd | application/xml-dtd |
| .doc | application/msword |
| .exe | application/octet-stream |
| .gif | image/gif |
| .gz | application/x-gzip |
| .hqx | application/mac-binhex40 |
| .html | text/html |
| .jar | application/java-archive |
| .jpg | image/jpeg |
| .js | application/x-javascript |
| .midi | audio/x-midi |
| .mp3 | audio/mpeg |
| .mpeg | video/mpeg |
| .ogg | audio/vorbis, application/ogg |
| application/pdf | |
| .pl | application/x-perl |
| .png | image/png |
| .ppt | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint |
| .ps | application/postscript |
| .qt | video/quicktime |
| .ra | audio/x-pn-realaudio, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio |
| .ram | audio/x-pn-realaudio, audio/vnd.rn-realaudio |
| .rdf | application/rdf, application/rdf+xml |
| .rtf | application/rtf |
| .sgml | text/sgml |
| .sit | application/x-stuffit |
| .svg | image/svg+xml |
| .swf | application/x-shockwave-flash |
| .tar.gz | application/x-tar |
| .tgz | application/x-tar |
| .tiff | image/tiff |
| .tsv | text/tab-separated-values |
| .txt | text/plain |
| .wav | audio/wav, audio/x-wav |
| .xls | application/vnd.ms-excel |
| .xml | application/xml |
| .zip | application/zip, application/x-compressed-zip |
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