| Lesson 12 | MIME examples |
| Objective | Identify examples and file extensions of MIME types. |
MIME File Examples
The following are examples of other MIME types and subtypes:
- text/plain
- text/HTML (HTML documents)
- application/x-msword (Microsoft Word)
- application/x-compressed (WinZip)
- image/GIF (GIF file)
- audio/wave (wave audio file)
To determine the MIME type of an incoming request from a browser, a Web server typically interprets the file extension of the requested file. Most Web servers have default mapping between file extensions and MIME types.
The table below shows examples of mappings to some well-known MIME types.
| File Extension |
File Content |
MIME Type |
| .html |
HTML files |
text/html |
| .txt |
Plain text files |
text/plain |
| .jpg |
JPEG images |
images/jpeg |
| .zip |
ZIP archives |
application/zip |
| .mid |
MIDI sequences |
audio/mid |
As new document types are added to the MIME system, you may need to provide further mapping between file extensions and MIME types.
Occasionally, following an update of graphics files on a Web site, you may find that you can access text but not graphics files. This could mean the graphic files were corrupted, or that the Web server's MIME-type setting for the graphics files may have changed.
The next lesson wraps up this module.
Mime File Extensions
Click the Exercise link below to reinforce your understanding of file extensions related to MIME types.
Mime File Extensions