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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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Utility of HTTP header "Content-Type: application/force-download" for mobile?

I am currently working on a PHP script that allows you to download media contents (video, audio, pictures...) from your mobile device by accessing a link. (i.e. http://www.my-web-site.com/download.php?id=7ejs8ap) My script worked very vell when I…
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What is the HTTP "content-type" to use for a blob of bytes?

What is the HTTP "content-type" to use when returning a blob of bytes in response to a client's GET request? In this case, the information payload is an object serialized using Python's Pickle library.
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"name" web pdf for better default save filename in Acrobat?

My app generates PDFs for user consumption. The "Content-Disposition" http header is set as mentioned here. This is set to "inline; filename=foo.pdf", which should be enough for Acrobat to give "foo.pdf" as the filename when saving the…
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Get the response Content-Type header from XHR

I would like to see whether the header was text/html or text/xml. If it was text/html then there was an error and I would rather catch that before proceeding.
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Set Content-Type to application/json in jsp file

I am created some jsp file that returns as a response some json string. But I see that the Content-Type is set to txt automatically My jsp code looks like <%@ page import="java.util.Random" %> <%@ page language="java" %> <%@ page session="false"…
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What is the HTML5 alternative to the obsolete meta http-equiv=content-language.

I'm finishing up an HTML5 site that has a mixture of English and Mandarin Chinese. My validator (HTML5 Validator add-on for FF) is giving me this error: error: Using the “meta” element to specify the document-wide default language is obsolete.…
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Unable to delete SharePoint 2010 ContentType "Contenty type in use."

I have tried all the recommendations on the web, to no avail. I wrote a console application per these instructions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spcontenttypecollection.delete.aspx The "Usages.Count" is = 0. Yet, when…
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How to force parse request body as plain text instead of json in Express?

I am using nodejs + Express (v3) like this: app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.route('/some/route', function(req, res) { var text = req.body; // I expect text to be a string but it is a JSON }); I checked the request headers and the content-type…
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Display image from http response with image content type

Let's say I have url and don't know what it will return. I perform ajax call to that url with javascript and get the content. So I test it's content-type and decide how to show response in my webpage. In case it is json or html or any other text, I…
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Http Post with request content type form not working in Spring MVC 3

code snippet: @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)//, headers = "content-type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded") public ModelAndView create(@RequestBody UserAccountBean account) { try{ accounts.put(account.assignId(),…
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Content type for HTML fragments

When a server sends an HTTP response with an HTML document in the body, it would usually use the text/html content type. Should the content type be different if the reponse is a fragment of HTML? For example, if the request is AJAX from a client…
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In C#, how can I know the file type from a byte[]?

I have a byte array filled from a file uploaded. But, in another part of the code, I need to know this file type uploaded from the byte[] so I can render the correct content-type to browser! Thanks!!
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header("Content-type: text/css"); is working in Firefox and Chrome, but in Internet Explorer 9 it shows up as 'text/html'

header("Content-type: text/css"); works in Firefox, Chrome and other, but not in Internet Explorer 9. I am not sure what's up. In Chrome and Firework it shows the style sheet if I open it in its own tab and it's being applied to the page. In Chrome…
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Setting request header content-type to json in Spring Framework resttemplate

I'm learning Spring Framework to create a client of a REST web service that uses basic authentication and exchanges JSON. After much searching on the web, I wrote some code that worked (below), but now I'm getting an "Unsupported Media Type" error…
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How to get the content/type of a file at runtime

I am trying to determine dynamically the content/type of a input file. If I would be in a windows application I could write code like this (from this blog) private string GetContentType(string fileName) { string contentType =…
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