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In the following screen MIME types can be recorded and changed. Open Form

The MIME specification (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) was proposed in 1992 to ensure that non-ASCII files could be sent by email. Because the ASCII standard consists of the standard Western European and American characters, it could not be used for images or other material. Today, the MIME specification is also used by the HTTP protocol to present all kinds of files in web pages.

The meaning of the entry fields is:

The MIME types are used to link file extensions to MIME types. In this way you can determine a MIME type even in the absence of the correct MIME type.

The registration of MIME types is a typical activity for application developers. See the warning under Application Development.