Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is a standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and web hypertext documents on the Internet.
Description
MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049, and BCP0013. It uses mimencode to encode binary data into base 64, using a subset of ASCII.[1] Different file types of non-textual data are identified through a MIME type (now known as a media type).[2]
References
- ↑ Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1995-04-04.
- ↑ MIME type at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. 1998-02-10.
External links
- Media Types at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- MIME types at Mozilla
- MIME and media type at Wikipedia
