| Text
and Text-related Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| HTML text data (RFC 1866) | text/html | html htm |
| Plain text: documents; program listings | text/plain | txt c c++ pl cc h |
| Richtext (obsolete - replaced by text/enriched) | text/richtext | |
| Structure enhanced text | text/x-setext | etx |
| Enriched text markup (RFC 1896) | text/enriched | |
| Tab-separated values (tabular) | text/tab-separated-values | tsv |
| SGML documents (RFC 1874) | text/sgml | |
| Speech synthesis data (MVP Solutions) | text/x-speech | talk |
| Image Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| GIF | image/gif | gif |
| X-Windows bitmap (b/w) | image/x-xbitmap | xbm |
| X-Windows pixelmap (8-bit color) | image/x-xpixmap | xpm |
| Portable Network Graphics | image/x-png | png |
| Image Exchange Format (RFC 1314) | image/ief | ief |
| JPEG | image/jpeg | jpeg jpg jpe |
| TIFF | image/tiff | tiff tif |
| RGB | image/rgb | rgb |
| | image/x-rgb | |
| Group III Fax (RFC 1494) | image/g3fax | g3f |
| X Windowdump format | image/x-xwindowdump | xwd |
| Macintosh PICT format | image/x-pict | pict |
| PPM (UNIX PPM package) | image/x-portable-pixmap | ppm |
| PGM (UNIX PPM package) | image/x-portable-graymap | pgm |
| PBM (UNIX PPM package) | image/x-portable-bitmap | pbm |
| PNM (UNIX PPM package) | image/x-portable-anymap | pnm |
| Microsoft Windows bitmap | image/x-ms-bmp | bmp |
| CMU raster | image/x-cmu-raster | ras |
| Kodak Photo-CD | image/x-photo-cd | pcd |
| Computer Graphics Metafile | image/cgm | cgm |
| North Am. Presentation Layer Protocol | image/naplps | |
| CALS Type 1 or 2 | image/x-cals | mil cal |
| Fractal Image Format (Iterated Systems) | image/fif | fif |
| QuickSilver active image (Micrografx) | image/x-mgx-dsf | dsf |
| CMX vector image (Corel) | image/x-cmx | cmx |
| Wavelet-compressed (Summus) | image/wavelet | wi |
| AutoCad Drawing (SoftSource) | image/vnd.dwg | dwg |
| | image/x-dwg | |
| AutoCad DXF file (SoftSource) | image/vnd.dxf | dxf |
| | image/x-dxf | |
| Simple Vector Format (SoftSource) | image/vnd.svf | svf |
| | also vector/x-svf | |
| Audio/Voice/Music
Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| "basic"audio - 8-bit u-law PCM | audio/basic | au snd |
| Macintosh audio format (AIpple) | audio/x-aiff | aif aiff aifc |
| Microsoft audio | audio/x-wav | wav |
| MPEG audio | audio/x-mpeg | mpa abs mpega |
| MPEG-2 audio | audio/x-mpeg-2 | mp2a mpa2 |
| compressed speech (Echo Speech Corp.) | audio/echospeech | es |
| Toolvox speech audio (Voxware) | audio/voxware | vox |
| RapidTransit compressed audio (Fast Man) | application/fastman | lcc |
| Realaudio (Progressive Networks) | application/x-pn-realaudio | ra ram |
| NIFF music notation data format | application/vnd.music-niff | |
| MIDI music data | x-music/x-midi | mmid |
| Koan music data (SSeyo) | application/vnd.koan | skp |
| | application/x-koan | |
| Speech synthesis data (MVP Solutions) | text/x-speech | talk |
| Application
Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| PostScript | application/postscript | ai eps ps |
| Microsoft Rich Text Format | application/rtf | rtf |
| Adobe Acrobat PDF | application/pdf | pdf |
| | application/x-pdf | |
| Maker Interchange Format (FrameMaker) | application/vnd.mif | mif |
| | application/x-mif | |
| Troff document | application/x-troff | t tr roff |
| Troff document with MAN macros | application/x-troff-man | man |
| Troff document with ME macros | application/x-troff-me | me |
| Troff document with MS macros | application/x-troff-ms | ms |
| LaTeX document | application/x-latex | latex |
| Tex/LateX document | application/x-tex | tex |
| GNU TexInfo document | application/x-texinfo | texinfo texi |
| TeX dvi format | application/x-dvi | dvi |
| MacWrite document | application/macwriteii | ?? |
| MS word document | application/msword | ?? |
| WordPerfect 5.1 document | application/wordperfect5.1 | ?? |
| SGML application (RFC 1874) | application/sgml | |
| Office Document Architecture | application/oda | oda |
| Envoy Document | application/envoy | evy |
| Wang Info. Tranfer Format (Wang) | application/wita | |
| DEC Document Transfer Format (DEC) | application/dec-dx | |
| IBM Document Content Architecture (IBM) | application/dca-rft | |
| CommonGround Digital Paper (No Hands Software) | application/commonground | |
| FrameMaker Documents (Frame) | application/vnd.framemaker | doc fm frm frame |
| | application/x-framemaker | |
| Remote printing at arbitrary printers (RFC 1486) | application/remote-printing | |
| General Application
Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| Undefined binary data (often executable progs) | application/octet-stream | |
| CALS (U.S. D.O.D data format - RFC 1895) | application/cals-1840 | |
| Pointcast news data (Pointcast) | application/x-pcn | pcn |
| Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft) | application/vnd.ms-excel | |
| | application/x-msexcel | |
| | application/ms-excel | |
| PowerPoint (Microsoft) | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint | ppt |
| | application/ms-powerpoint | |
| Microsoft Project (Microsoft) | application/vnd.ms-project | |
| Works data (Microsoft) | application/vnd.ms-works | |
| MAPI data (Microsoft) | application/vnd.ms-tnef | |
| Artgallery data (Microsoft) | application/vnd.artgalry | |
| SourceView document (Dataware Electronics) | application/vnd.svd | svd |
| Truedoc (Bitstream) | application/vnd.truedoc | |
| Net Install - software install (20/20 Software) | application/x-net-install | ins |
| Carbon Copy - remote control/access (Microcom) | application/ccv | ccv |
| Spreadsheets (Visual Components) | workbook/formulaone | vts |
| Cybercash digital money (Cybercash) | application/cybercash | |
| Format for sending generic Macintosh files | application/applefile | |
| Active message -- connect to active mail app. | application/activemessage | |
| X.400 mail message body part (RFC 1494) | application/x400-bp | |
| USENET news message id (RFC 1036) | application/news-message-id | |
| USENET news message (RFC 1036) | application/news-transmission | |
| Multipart
Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| Messages with multiple parts | multipart/mixed | |
| Messages with multiple, alternative parts | multipart/alternative | |
| Message with multiple, related parts | multipart/related | |
| Multiple parts are digests | multipart/digest | |
| For reporting of email status (admin.) | multipart/report | |
| Order of parts does not matter | multipart/parallel | |
| Macintosh file data | multipart/appledouble | |
| Aggregate messages; descriptor as header | multipart/header-setM | |
| Container for voice-mail | multipart/voice-message | |
| HTML FORM data | multipart/form-data | |
| Infinite multiparts | multipart/x-mixed-replace | |
| Scientific/Math/CAD
Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| Chemical types -- to communicate information about chemical models | chemical/* (several subtypes) | |
| Mathematica notebook | application/mathematica | ma |
| Computational meshes for numerical simulations | x-model/x-mesh
(evolving to model/mesh) | msh |
| Vis5D 5-dimensional data | application/vis5d | v5d |
| IGES models -- CAD/CAM (CGM) data | application/iges
(evolving to model/iges?) | igs |
| Autocad WHIP vector drawings | drawing/x-dwf | dwf |
| Silicon Graphics Mimetypes |
| Description of Data Content |
MIME type/subtype |
File Types |
| Showcase Presentations | application/x-showcase | showcase slides sc sho show |
| Insight Manual pages | application/x-insight | ins insight |
| Iris Annotator data | application/x-annotator | ano |
| Directory Viewer | application/x-dirview | dir |
| Software License | application/x-enterlicense | lic |
| Fax manager file | application/x-fax-manager | faxmgr |
| Fax job data file | application/x-fax-manager-job | faxmgrjob |
| IconBook data | application/x-iconbook | icnbk |
| ? | application/x-inpview | wb |
| Installable software in 'inst' format | application/x-install | inst |
| Mail folder | application/x-mailfolder | mail |
| ? | application/x-ppages | pp ppages |
| Data for printer (via lpr) | application/x-sgi-lpr | sgi-lpr |
| Software in 'tardist' format | application/x-tardist | tardist |
| Software in compressed 'tardist' format | application/x-ztardist | ztardist |
| WingZ spreadsheet | application/x-wingz | wkz |
| Open Inventor 3-D scenes | graphics/x-inventor | iv |