Intro to Apache - ApacheCon
What to do with the content?
  • A MIME header is sent with the content to tell the browser what sort of content it is, so that it knows what to do with it.

    
    text/html
    image/gif
    application/unknown
    video/mpeg
    		  

  • The browser maps the MIME type to a renderer for that type.
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