What is the difference between MIME, Internet media type and HTTP?
content-type, http, mime-types
Solution
"Internet Media Type" is the correct term for "MIME type".
"Content-Type" is the name of the HTTP (and mail) header field that carries the media type in the field value.
Problem
From what I have read, MIME is something that is used for encoding e-mails. Then there's this thing called Internet media types. We have Internet media types like `text/plain`, `application/json`, `image/png` etc. Then we have HTTP protocol with its `Content-Type` headers, examples of valid headers include: `Content-Type: text/plain` `Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8` `Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=blah` (source) So is string such as "`text/plain; charset=utf-8`" an expression bound to HTTP protocol, MIME standard or a completely valid Internet media type? What exactly are the relations between each of these protocols?