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  2. Media type - Wikipedia

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    Media type. A media type (formerly known as a MIME type) [1] is a two-part identifier for file formats and format contents transmitted on the Internet. Their purpose is somewhat similar to file extensions in that they identify the intended data format. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the official authority for the ...

  3. MIME - Wikipedia

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    MIME. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ( MIME) is a standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message bodies may consist of multiple parts, and header information may be specified in non-ASCII character sets.

  4. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    An opportunity to raise a "File Download" dialogue box for a known MIME type with binary format or suggest a filename for dynamic content. Quotes are necessary with special characters. Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.ext" Permanent RFC 2616, 4021, 6266: Content-Encoding: The type of encoding used on the data. See HTTP compression.

  5. Text types - Wikipedia

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    Text types in literature form the basic styles of writing. Factual texts merely seek to inform, whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise engage the reader by using creative language and imagery. There are many aspects to literary writing, and many ways to analyse it, but four basic categories are descriptive, narrative, expository ...

  6. HTTP - Wikipedia

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    Other types of user agent include the indexing software used by search providers (web crawlers), voice browsers, mobile apps, and other software that accesses, consumes, or displays web content. HTTP is designed to permit intermediate network elements to improve or enable communications between clients and servers.

  7. Character encodings in HTML - Wikipedia

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    First, the web server can include the character encoding or " charset " in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Content-Type header, which would typically look like this: [1] Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8. This method gives the HTTP server a convenient way to alter document's encoding according to content negotiation; certain HTTP ...

  8. Digital content - Wikipedia

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    Digital content is any content that exists in the form of digital data. Digital content is stored on digital media or analog storage in specific formats. Forms of digital content include information that is digitally broadcast, streamed, or contained in computer files. Viewed narrowly, digital content includes popular media types, while a ...

  9. Hypertext - Wikipedia

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    HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. Potentially, HyperText provides a single user-interface to many large classes of stored information, such as reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line systems help.