[Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web

[Mandeep Sandhu]

>> OT, but isn't that done by examining file extensions or file headers
>> (like how the 'file' command works in Linux)?
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> Once you've detected what the data is, you need to tell whomever asked
> about it what it actually is.  You need a communication protocol for
> that.  Like MIME.  So you get the request "what is this data?"  You look
> at it, and then answer "audio/mpeg", which is a MIME type.

Right, but MIME is not the communication protocol. That would be
something like HTTP. MIME just says: for xzy file type, use set the
content type to some standard string (like you mentioned).

-mandeep


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