This is a complete list of MIME types supported by Webcourses@UCF. Please note that this information can be found in the HELP area of Webcourses. If you are aware of incorrect or incomplete information on this page, please contact itg@mail.ucf.edu
A Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type is used by browsers to determine how to display content. For example, if the MIME type is text is text/html, the browser will display the content as HTML.
When you view a file, the MIME type is sent to your browser so that it can identify the type of file and determine what to do with the file. Webcourses@UCF supports the following MIME types:
| File Type | File Extension | MIME Type |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe® Portable Document Format | application/pdf | |
| Adobe Postscript® | ps | application/postscript |
| AOL® Art Image | art | image/x-art |
| Apple® QuickTime® movie | movie | video/x-sgi-movie |
| Apple QuickTime video clip | mov, qt | video/quicktime |
| Audio Interchange File | aif, aifc, aiff | audio/x-aiff |
| Audio Video Interleave | avi | video/x-msvideo |
| Backup file | bak | application/octet-stream |
| Basic Audio | au | audio/basic |
| Bitmap Graphics | bmp | image/bmp |
| Blackboard Learning System File | wct | application/octet-stream |
| Calendar file | ics | text/calendar |
| Cascading Style Sheet | css | text/css |
| Comma-Separated Variables | csv | text/csv |
| Corel® Presentations™ | shw | applications/presentations |
| Encapsulated Postscript | eps | application/postscript |
| Executable | exe | application/octet-stream |
| Extensible Markup Language | xml | text/xml |
| Extensible Style Sheets | xsl | text/sxl |
| Graphic Interchange Format | gif | image/gif |
| Hypertext Markup Language | htm, html | text/html |
| HyperText Template | htt | text/html |
| Java | java | text/plain |
| Java Class | class | application/octet-stream |
| JavaScript™ | js | application/x-javascript |
| JavaServer™ Pages | jsp | text/html |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group | jpg, jpe, jpeg | image/jpeg |
| Log File | log | text/plain |
| Macromedia® Director® | dir, dcr, dxr | application/x-director |
| Macromedia Flash® | fla | application/x-shockwave-flash |
| Macromedia Shockwave® Flash | swf | application/x-shockwave-flash |
| Microsoft® Access | mdb | application/x-msaccess |
| Microsoft Excel | xls, xlt | application/vnd.ms-excel |
| Microsoft HTML | mht | text/mht |
| Microsoft Outlook® | eml | message/rfc822 |
| Microsoft PowerPoint® | ppt, pot | application/vnd.ms-powerpoint |
| Microsoft Project | mpp, mpt, mpx | application/vnd.ms-project |
| Microsoft Word | doc, dot | application/msword |
| Microsoft Works | msw | application/x-msworks-wp |
| Moving Pictures Experts Group | mpg, mpe, mpeg | video/mpg |
| Moving Pictures Experts Group Audio | mpga, mp2, mp3 | audio/mpeg |
| Musical Instrumental Digital Interface | mid, midi | audio/midi |
| PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic | pcx | appliation/x-pc-paintbrush |
| Portable (Public) Network Graphic | png | image/png |
| Properties (Java) | properties | text/plain |
| RealAudio® | ra, ram, rm | audio/x-realaudio |
| RealPlayer® Plug-In | rpm | audio/pn-realaudio-plugin |
| RealVideo® | rv | audio/x-realvideo |
| Rich Text Document | rtx | text/richtext |
| Rich Text Format | rtf | application/rtf |
| Shell (Unix) | sh | text/plain |
| Sound | snd, au, ulaw | audio/basic |
| Standard Generalized Markup Language | sgml, sgm | text/sgml |
| Tab-Separated Values | tsv | text/tab-separated-values |
| Tagged Image Format File | tif, tiff | image/tiff |
| Text | txt, asc | text/plain |
| Uniform Resource Locator | url | text/plain |
| Unknown Binary | bin | application/octet-stream |
| Virtual Reality Modeling Language | vrml, wrl | x-world/x-vrml |
| Waveform Audio | wav | audio/x-wave |
| Windows Advanced Systems Format | asf, asx | video/x-ms-video |
| WordPerfect® | wpg, wpd | application/wordperfect5.1 |
| StuffIt™ Compressed Archive | sit | application/x-stuffit |
| Zip Compressed Archive | zip | application/x-zip-compressed |