What is MIME?
MIME - Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MIME types signifies a standard way of classifying file types over Internet.
Browsers and Web servers have a list of MIME types that facilitates files transfer of the same type in the similar way, irrespective of operating system they are working in.
A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype. They are separated by a slash (/).
MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application and subtype is MS word, i.e. application/msword.