REST and Hypermedia
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Concepts
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME)
MIME is an internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support text in character sets other then ASCII, non-text attachments, such as audio, video, images, application programs, etc., message bodies with multiple parts and header information in non-ASCII characters sets. MIME is specified in six linked RFCs: RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 4288, RFC 4289 and RFC 2049.
Media Type
A media type, also called a content type or MIME type is a short string identifying the format of a document. Usually, knowing a document's format allows us to parse it.