Appendix A. Media Types

Table A-1. Media types
Media typeDescriptionReference

text/html

Used for exchanging HTML documents.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html

application/xhtml+xml

Used for exchanging HTML documents that use well-formed XML.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3236

application/xml

Used for exchanging XML documents and schemas.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt

application/json

Used for exchanging JSON documents.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Used for exchanging form key/value data.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1

multipart/mixed

Used for exchanging multiple sets of data combined into a single body.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1521#section-7.2.2

multipart/form-data

Used primarily for exchanging files.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2388

image/jpeg

Used for exchanging JPEG documents.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046

image/gif

Used for exchanging GIF documents.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046

image/png

Used for exchanging PNG documents.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2083

image/svg+xml

Used for exchanging SVG (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/) documents.

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/mimereg.html

application/atom+xml

Used for exchanging Atom feeds.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287

application/vnd.hal+json

Used for exchanging data that contains links to related resourcess

http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html

application/vnd.collection+json

Used for managing collections of data.

http://amundsen.com/media-types/collection/

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