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 | | MIME is also used on the Web to define the type of a piece of data (e.g., text/html), and to send complex multipart messages (messages with multiple parts) via HTTP. |
 | | MIME defines several document headers, placed inside the document, that specify such things as the nature of a message (multipart or single part), how the message parts are separated, the data content of each part, and the encoding scheme used to encode each part. |
 | | Thus, when the server administrator defines a new type of data on a server, for example Kodak Photo-CD images, he or she must define an extension to use for such files (e.g.,.pcd) and configure the server to associate the MIME type (e.g., image/x-photo-cd) with this extension. |
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