MIME Types application/x-httpd-php
Another multipurpose MIME, which has its subtype as ‘httpd’ which is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon(i.e web server).
A web server means two things either a computer program, which is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are the web browsers we use and then return them with responses along with data contents (images, text, graphics). Or it is a computer that runs a computer program as described above.
The second part of this extension is the ‘php’, which is also a technical term and is general scripting language, which has been designed to help produce dynamic web pages. This ‘php’ can be embedded into HTML and works through a web server, which is configured via a ‘php’ code and this is turn creates web page content.
The ‘x’ in the extension stands for a non standard MIME, which cannot be registered under the IANA, which is the Internet Assigned Number Authority. This authority regulates the global IP address allocation, root zone management for the Domain Name System.
This MIME helps web browsers to run dynamic websites and display them correctly on web browsers. The HTTPD with the help of the PHP program runs the dynamic website and helps clients or users to get direct data accurately.
MIME Types application/x-msdownload
This MIME like others is also a non standard MIME and is not registered under the IANA. The ‘x’ before the ‘msdownload’ denotes the unregistered type.
Whenever a file is uploaded from a client to a web server, Internet Explorer uses ‘FindMimeforData’ to determine the type of MIME being used. ‘x-msdownload’ is also one of the MIME types, which is used for download of data.
The mime application/x-msdownload supports the ‘dll’ or ‘exe’ extension files. The ‘dll’ and ‘exe’ are one of the many extensions of the Microsoft Library. Microsoft had defined its library, which is exclusive to windows users, and certain MIME’s are required for the running of the Internet smoothly. This MIME though an unregistered one is required by Windows users to open a quite a lot of sites.
‘dll’ stands for Dynamic Link Library, which is mainly a concept in the Microsoft Operating Systems. And ‘exe’ which is fairly and new extension compared to other is for exe-cutable files, and can contain code, data and resources in any combination. It contains code and characters mainly for a Graphical User Interface like Windows.
So if you are windows user, you will surely be using this MIME on your computer.
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