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The identifiers were originally defined in RFC 2046 for use in e-mail sent through SMTP , but their use has expanded to other protocols such as HTTP and SIP . A media type is composed of at least two parts: a ''type'', a ''subtype'', and one or more optional parameters. For example, subtypes of text type have an optional charset parameter that can be included to indicate the Character Encoding ,and subtypes of multipart type often define a boundary between parts.Types or subtypes that begin with "x-" are nonstandard -- they cannot be registered with IANA .1 Subtypes that begin with vnd. are vendor-specific.2LIST OF COMMON MEDIA TYPES IANA manages a registry of media types and Character Encoding s. The organization makes a list available to the public through the Web. Some of the more notable media types used on the Web are listed below:
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