A mailcap file can be used to find the correct program to open a file with, based on MIME MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of e-mail to describing content type in general, including for the web information. While the name is "mailcap" and is related to MIME MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of e-mail to describing content type in general, including for the web (mail filetypes) it actually has use outside the domain of electronic mail (see more about this in MIME MIME's use, however, has grown beyond describing the content of e-mail to describing content type in general, including for the web).

In UNIX-type systems, the mailcap file is usually located at /etc/mailcap and/or $HOME/.mailcap

RFC 1524 A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information describes the format of the contents of this file.

Lines can be comments starting with the # character, or a mime-type followed by how to handle that mime type. The first part is called the content-type, and the second part is called the view-command. For example video/mpeg; xmpeg %s says if a file encoded in mime has type video/mpeg, run the xmpeg program with the file name as a parameter.

mime.types

An associated file is the mime.types file, which associates filename extensions A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention of its contents with a MIME type. If the MIME type is properly set, this is unnecessary, but MIME types may be incorrectly set, or set to a generic type such as application/octet-stream, and mime.types allows one to fall back on the extension in these cases. Similarly, since many file systems do not store MIME type information, but instead rely on the filename extension, a mime.types file is frequently used by web servers to determine MIME type.

When viewing a file, these two work together as follows: mime.types associates an extension with a MIME type, while mailcap associates a MIME type with a program.

In UNIX-type systems, the mime.types file is usually located at /etc/mime.types and/or $HOME/.mime.types and the format is simply that each line is a space-delimited list of a MIME type, followed by zero or more extensions. For example, the HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms type can be associated with the extensions .htm, .html by the following line:

text/html htm html

Netscape use

The mime.types file dates to Netscape Netscape Communications is a US computer services company, best known for its web browser. When it was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California. The name Netscape was a trademark of Cisco Systems, that was granted to the company, where it used a different format;[1] it used key-value pairs and a comma-separated list of extensions, together with a standard header, as follows.

#--Netscape Communications Corporation MIME Information
# Do not delete the above line. It is used to identify the file type.
type=text/html exts=htm,html

References

  1. ^ WEBMASTERS: mime types, John McAnally, Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:29:29 -0600 (CST)

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