List of MIME types

What is MIME type ?

MIME stands for Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME types form a standard way of classifying file types on the Internet. Internet programs such as Web servers and browsers all have a list of MIME types, so that they can transfer files of the same type in the same way, no matter what operating system they are working in.

A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). For example, the MIME type for Microsoft Word files is applicationand the subtype is msword. Together, the complete MIME type is application/msword.

If we are writing a pdf type response from a asp.net web application then we need the MIME content-types of pdf document. The following is the list of MIME content-types of commonly used along with their file extension.

MIME type/subtype	File Extensions
application/andrew-inset	ez
application/mac-binhex40	hqx
application/mac-compactpro	cpt
application/mathml+xml	mathml
application/msword	doc
application/octet-stream	bin dms lha lzh exe class so dll
application/oda	oda
application/ogg	ogg
application/pdf	pdf
application/postscript	ai eps ps
application/rdf+xml	rdf
application/smil	smi smil
application/srgs	gram
application/srgs+xml	grxml
application/vnd.mif	mif
application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml	xul
application/vnd.ms-excel	xls
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint	ppt
application/vnd.wap.wbxml	wbxml
application/vnd.wap.wmlc	.wmlc wmlc
application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc	.wmlsc wmlsc
application/voicexml+xml	vxml
application/x-bcpio	bcpio
application/x-cdlink	vcd
application/x-chess-pgn	pgn
application/x-cpio	cpio
application/x-csh	csh
application/x-director	dcr dir dxr
application/x-dvi	dvi
application/x-futuresplash	spl
application/x-gtar	gtar
application/x-hdf	hdf
application/x-httpd-php	.php .php4 .php3 .phtml
application/x-httpd-php-source	.phps
application/x-javascript	js
application/x-koan	skp skd skt skm
application/x-latex	latex
application/x-netcdf	nc cdf
application/x-pkcs7-crl	.crl
application/x-sh	sh
application/x-shar	shar
application/x-shockwave-flash	swf
application/x-stuffit	sit
application/x-sv4cpio	sv4cpio
application/x-sv4crc	sv4crc
application/x-tar	.tgz 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/x-x509-ca-cert	.crt
application/xhtml+xml	xhtml xht
application/xml	xml xsl
application/xml-dtd	dtd
application/xslt+xml	xslt
application/zip	zip
audio/basic	au snd
audio/midi	mid midi kar
audio/mpeg	mpga mp2 mp3
audio/x-aiff	aif aiff aifc
audio/x-mpegurl	m3u
audio/x-pn-realaudio	ram rm
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin	rpm
audio/x-realaudio	ra
audio/x-wav	wav
chemical/x-pdb	pdb
chemical/x-xyz	xyz
image/bmp	bmp
image/cgm	cgm
image/gif	gif
image/ief	ief
image/jpeg	jpeg jpg jpe
image/png	png
image/svg+xml	svg
image/tiff	tiff tif
image/vnd.djvu	djvu djv
image/vnd.wap.wbmp	.wbmp wbmp
image/x-cmu-raster	ras
image/x-icon	ico
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
model/iges	igs iges
model/mesh	msh mesh silo
model/vrml	wrl vrml
text/calendar	ics ifb
text/css	css
text/html	.shtml html htm
text/plain	asc txt
text/richtext	rtx
text/rtf	rtf
text/sgml	sgml sgm
text/tab-separated-values	tsv
text/vnd.wap.wml	.wml wml
text/vnd.wap.wmlscript	.wmls wmls
text/x-setext	etx
video/mpeg	mpeg mpg mpe
video/quicktime	qt mov
video/vnd.mpegurl	mxu
video/x-msvideo	avi
video/x-sgi-movie	movie
x-conference/x-cooltalk	ice