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The Content-Type entity-header field indicates the media type of the entity-body sent to the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the media type that would have been sent had the request been a GET.

The Content-Type entity-header field indicates the media type (or MIME type) of the entity-body sent to the recipient or, in the case of the HEAD method, the media type that would have been sent had the request been a GET.

Content-Type   = "Content-Type" ":" media-type

An example of the field for HTML documents is:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-4

For a PNG file, it would be:

Content-Type: image/png

Source: http://www.w3.org/

HTTP Specification : Section 14 : Header Field Definitions

Wikipedia articles:

  1. MIME
  2. Internet media type
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