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So far for Mime Types for Zip files I've seen:
I guess my question is which is the "best" and why? Why is there so many choices? I use winrar and it doesn't seem to care what the Mimetype is, but WinZip seems to only like multipart/x-zip and application/octet-stream. is there a Mimetype I can have all Zip files be downloaded as that will work in all programs?
thanks!
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An official list of mime types can be found at The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) . According to their list Content-Type header for zip is application/zip . The media type for rar files is not officially registered at IANA but the unofficial commonly used mime-type value is application/x-rar-compressed .
A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/). For example, the MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and the subtype is msword.
Registered with IANA MIME type is application/zip : http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/zip
WinZip is not a reference implementation (since originally ZIP standard is developed by PkWare).
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