ITPEC FE Morning October 2020 Question 34
ITPEC FE Morning October 2020 — Question 34 of 80
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) — extends email headers to support non-text content.
MIME adds special headers to emails so they can carry audio, images, video, and other binary files — not just plain text.
Key MIME headers:
- Content-Type — specifies the media type (e.g., image/png, audio/mp3)
- Content-Transfer-Encoding — how binary data is encoded (e.g., base64)
Why not others:
- (a) HTML — markup language for web pages, not an email extension standard
- (b) MHS — older X.400 message handling system, not an Internet standard
- (d) SMTP — protocol for sending email; MIME extends what SMTP can carry
Key rule: MIME = the standard that lets email carry attachments (images, audio, files) by extending header fields.
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