Basic HTML version of Foils prepared October 2 98

Foil 23 MIME - Base Content Types

From Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web CPS406/606 -- Fall Semester 98. by Nancy J. McCracken


text
  • subtypes: plain (just ASCII) and richtext (a simple markup extension including <bold>, <italic> etc. tags)
  • character sets can be further specified in the header value field as follows:
    • Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
  • Other charsets can be used to support other languages such as iso-8859-1 (French) or iso-2022-JP (Japanese). These charsets need to be encoded in one of two encoding modes: base64 or quoted-printable. The latter retains ASCII subset and is more natural for non-ASCII extensions.
image
  • Standard subtypes: gif, jpeg. Others expected.
audio
  • Standard subtype: single-channel 8KHz u-law. Others expected.
video
  • Standard subtype: mpeg. Others plausible.



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