Standard MIME types

This is a copy of the mime.types file distributed with the Apache web server. The first word of each line (including the slash) is a valid MIME type. All of the following words on each line are file extentions that the server will map to the given MIME type.

Any of these types may be specified on a CGI's Content-type: header line. The most common would be, for example,

Content-type: text/html


application/activemessage application/andrew-inset application/applefile application/atomicmail application/dca-rft application/dec-dx application/mac-binhex40 hqx application/mac-compactpro cpt application/macwriteii application/msword doc application/news-message-id application/news-transmission application/octet-stream bin dms lha lzh exe class application/oda oda application/pdf pdf application/postscript ai eps ps application/powerpoint ppt application/remote-printing application/rtf rtf application/slate application/wita application/wordperfect5.1 application/x-bcpio bcpio application/x-cdlink vcd application/x-compress Z application/x-cpio cpio application/x-csh csh application/x-director dcr dir dxr application/x-dvi dvi application/x-gtar gtar application/x-gzip gz application/x-hdf hdf application/x-httpd-cgi cgi application/x-koan skp skd skt skm application/x-latex latex application/x-mif mif application/x-netcdf nc cdf application/x-sh sh application/x-shar shar application/x-stuffit sit application/x-sv4cpio sv4cpio application/x-sv4crc sv4crc application/x-tar tar application/x-tcl tcl application/x-tex tex application/x-texinfo texinfo texi application/x-troff t tr roff application/x-troff-man man application/x-troff-me me application/x-troff-ms ms application/x-ustar ustar application/x-wais-source src application/zip zip audio/basic au snd audio/mpeg mpga mp2 audio/x-aiff aif aiff aifc audio/x-pn-realaudio ram audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm audio/x-realaudio ra audio/x-wav wav chemical/x-pdb pdb xyz image/gif gif image/ief ief image/jpeg jpeg jpg jpe image/png png image/tiff tiff tif image/x-cmu-raster ras image/x-portable-anymap pnm image/x-portable-bitmap pbm image/x-portable-graymap pgm image/x-portable-pixmap ppm image/x-rgb rgb image/x-xbitmap xbm image/x-xpixmap xpm image/x-xwindowdump xwd message/external-body message/news message/partial message/rfc822 multipart/alternative multipart/appledouble multipart/digest multipart/mixed multipart/parallel text/html html htm text/plain txt text/richtext rtx text/tab-separated-values tsv text/x-setext etx text/x-sgml sgml sgm video/mpeg mpeg mpg mpe video/quicktime qt mov video/x-msvideo avi video/x-sgi-movie movie x-conference/x-cooltalk ice x-world/x-vrml wrl vrml