A Complete Guide to Web Design

62 Chapter 4 – A Beginner’s Guide to the Server

File (MIME) Types

Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter Edition

.aifc audio/aifc Compressed AIFF

file

B

.au audio/basic μ-law sound file B

.avi video/avi or

video/x-msvideo

AVI video file B

.bmp image/x-MS-bmp Microsoft BMP file B

.dcr, .dir, .dxr application/

x-director

Shockwave files B

.doc application/

msword

Microsoft Word

document

B

.eps application/

postscript

Encapsulated Post-

Script

A

.exe application/

x-msdownload

Self-extracting file or

executable

B

.gif image/gif Graphic in GIF

format

B

.gz application/

x-gzip

Compressed file, use

gunzip (Unix

decompressor)

B

.hqx application/

mac-binhex40

Mac BinHex Archive B

.htm text/html HTML document A

.jpg, .jpeg,

.jpe, .jfif,

.pjpeg, .pjp

image/jpeg Graphic in JPEG

format

B

.mid audio/midi or

audio/x-midi

MIDI audio file B

.mov video/quicktime QuickTime movie B

.movie video/x-sgi-

movie

Silicon Graphics

movie

B

.mpg, .mpe,

.mpeg, .m1v,

.mp2, .mp3, .mpa

video/mpeg MPEG movie B

.pbm image/x-

portable-bitmap

Portable bitmap

image

B

.pcd image/x-photo-cd Kodak photo CD

image

B

.pdf application/pdf Portable Document

Format (Acrobat file)

B

.pic image/x-pict PICT image file B

.pl application/

x-perl

Perl source file A

Table 4-3: MIME Types and Subtypes by Extension (continued)

Extension Type/Subtype Description

ASCII/

Binary