Definition:
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. And a MIME type tells the browser or user agent what type of program various file types and extensions are.
There are many, many different MIME types. On the web the most common ones are used with multimedia such as audio files and video files.
MIME type information is maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Also Known As: internet media type, content-type
Examples:
text/html is the HTML MIME type
