Is there a comprehensive MIME header format reference online somewhere?

Question

I've looked at probably 100 sites, and haven't found anything. Some are just lists of mime type values, others references to the RFCs, or more or less direct quotes from them. The RFCs are impenetrable, and each only reveals one small part of the elephant.

Is there somewhere that gives us a comprehensive picture of the entire elephant (the MIME header), with all the parts attached in their appropriate locations?

Answer 1

I am going to list websites that have helped me on this topic enormously and hope they can help you two. I saved these to my bookmarks over time:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
• http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/mime-types-full
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1521
• http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime/
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2045
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2047
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2048
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2049
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/video/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/audio/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/examples/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/message/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/model/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/multipart/index.html
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/index.html

All of these helped me in one way or another and I saved all of them because I will probably need them in the future, hope they help you as much as they did me.

Answer 2

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html That is the ONLY link you should need!

EDIT: Answer in the Comments

http://ietf.org/rfc all the text is there, but not very useful because there is other stuff too. So then, go to the index: http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index and ctrl+f for MIME. This brings up 113 hits. Go through the title until you see what you are looking for, then reference the number and get the full text