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All processing happens locally in your browser. Your data is never uploaded to a server.
A MIME type (now called a media type) tells the browser how to handle the bytes. A wrong Content-Type is why a page sometimes renders as plain text.
text/htmlHTML documenttext/htmlHTML document (legacy extension)text/cssCascading style sheettext/javascriptJavaScript sourcetext/javascriptJavaScript ES moduletext/plainPlain texttext/csvComma-separated valuestext/markdownMarkdown documenttext/calendarCalendar eventtext/vttWebVTT subtitlesapplication/jsonJSON dataapplication/ld+jsonJSON-LD structured dataapplication/xmlXML data for machinesapplication/rss+xmlRSS feedapplication/atom+xmlAtom feedapplication/yamlYAML dataapplication/yamlYAML dataapplication/wasmWebAssembly moduleapplication/pdfPDF documentapplication/rtfRich text documentimage/pngPNG image (lossless, alpha)image/jpegJPEG image (lossy)image/jpegJPEG image (lossy)image/gifGIF image, supports animationimage/webpWebP image, smaller than PNG/JPEGimage/avifAVIF image, best compressionimage/svg+xmlSVG vector imageimage/vnd.microsoft.iconFaviconimage/bmpUncompressed bitmapimage/tiffTIFF image, common in printimage/heicHEIC image, the iPhone defaultaudio/mpegMP3 audioaudio/wavWAV audioaudio/oggOgg audioaudio/mp4AAC audio in an MP4 containeraudio/flacFLAC lossless audiovideo/mp4MP4 video, best supportedvideo/webmWebM videovideo/quicktimeQuickTime videovideo/x-msvideoAVI videovideo/x-matroskaMatroska videovideo/mp2tMPEG-TS segment, used by HLSapplication/vnd.apple.mpegurlHLS playlistfont/woffWOFF web fontfont/woff2WOFF2 web font, preferredfont/ttfTrueType fontfont/otfOpenType fontapplication/zipZIP archiveapplication/gzipgzip archiveapplication/x-tartar archive, uncompressedapplication/x-7z-compressed7-Zip archiveapplication/vnd.rarRAR archiveapplication/x-bzip2bzip2 archiveapplication/mswordWord document, legacyapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentWord documentapplication/vnd.ms-excelExcel spreadsheet, legacyapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetExcel spreadsheetapplication/vnd.ms-powerpointPowerPoint slides, legacyapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentationPowerPoint slidesapplication/epub+zipEPUB e-bookapplication/octet-streamArbitrary binary — browsers download itapplication/vnd.android.package-archiveAndroid packageapplication/vnd.microsoft.portable-executableWindows executableapplication/x-apple-diskimagemacOS disk imageapplication/sqlSQL scriptapplication/x-httpd-phpPHP sourceAdd a charset to text types, e.g. text/html; charset=utf-8. Without it the browser guesses, and it guesses wrong on non-Latin text.