MIME Type
A MIME type, which is also known as an Internet media type or a Content-Type, is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet.
A media type is composed of at least two parts: a type, subtype, and one or more optional parameters. For example, subtypes of "text" type has an additional character set parameter that can be included to indicate the character coding.
In cPanel, you can setup MIME types, which tells a browser how to handle specific extensions. Most MIME types are set globally on the server. For example, the text/html MIME type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your website.
MIME types are often confused with Apache handlers, which are different than MIME types because they tell the server how to handle a file, rather than the browser how to.
Synonyms: Internet Media Type, Content-Type
