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title: "What is meant by MIME?"  
description: "What is meant by MIME?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-06-13  
updated: 2020-09-19  
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# What is meant by MIME?

MIME is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard for the format of e-mail. However browsers also uses MIME standard to transmit files. MIME has a header which is added to a beginning of the data. When browser sees such header it shows the data as it would be a file (for example image)\
Some examples of MIME types:\
audio/x-ms-wmp\
image/png\
application/x-shockwave-flash

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

MIME is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions is an Internet standard for the format of e-mail. However browsers also uses MIME standard to transmit files. MIME has a header which is added to a beginning of the data. When browser sees such header it shows the data as it would be a file (for example image)\
Some examples of MIME types:\
audio/x-ms-wmp\
image/png\
application/x-shockwave-flash


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