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Difference between Content Type and MIME Type

In day to day, Software Development process we normally encounter with this entity called Content Type and MIME Type. As the name itself sounds, Both defines type of data, that’s simple !! right ? But have you thought does only purpose this terminologies do have if they both are same. Let’s dig forward about them and see are they really same or serve more purpose than we know, Take a look at MIME type first, MIME Type MIME Type which is known as Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions type and also called media type generally is a standard that indicates the what kind of a document, file, or stream of bytes. It is refrenced from IETF’s  RFC 6838 . Where there are various types data available, to take care of all official MIME Types, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible which helps us to find the most up-to-date and complete list at their Media Types page. Syntax To define MIME type, a type and it’s a subtype which gives exact information when conc