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Proper MIME media type for PDF files

April 13, 2022 by IT Nursery

When working with PDFs, I’ve run across the MIME types application/pdf and application/x-pdf among others. Is there a difference between these two types, and if so what is it? Is one preferred over the other? I’m working on a web app which must deliver huge amounts of PDFs and I want to do it the … Read more

What is the correct JSON content type?

April 9, 2022 by IT Nursery

I’ve been messing around with JSON for some time, just pushing it out as text and it hasn’t hurt anybody (that I know of), but I’d like to start doing things properly. I have seen so many purported “standards” for the JSON content type: application/json application/x-javascript text/javascript text/x-javascript text/x-json But which one is correct, or … Read more