{"id":1266,"date":"2012-12-21T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-01-01T14:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T18:56:56","slug":"adding-mime-types-to-iis-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/adding-mime-types-to-iis-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Mime Types to IIS 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a MIME type?<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0MIME stands for &#8220;Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It&#8217;s a way of identifying files on the Internet according to their nature and format. For example, using the &#8220;Content-type&#8221; header value defined in a HTTP response, the browser can open the file with the proper extension\/plugin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong> &#8211; An\u00a0<b>Internet media type<\/b><sup id=\"cite_ref-w3c-internet-media-type_1-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_media_type#cite_note-w3c-internet-media-type-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0is a two-part identifier for\u00a0<a title=\"File format\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_format\">file formats<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a title=\"Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\">Internet<\/a>. The identifiers were originally defined in\u00a0<a title=\"RFC 2046\" href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc2046\" target=\"_blank\">RFC 2046<\/a>\u00a0for use in email sent through\u00a0<a title=\"Simple Mail Transfer Protocol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol\">SMTP<\/a>, but their use has expanded to other protocols such as\u00a0<a title=\"Hypertext Transfer Protocol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol\">HTTP<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Real-time Transport Protocol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Real-time_Transport_Protocol\">RTP<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Session Initiation Protocol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Session_Initiation_Protocol\">SIP<\/a>. These types were called\u00a0<b>MIME types<\/b>, and are sometimes referred to as\u00a0<b>Content-types<\/b>, after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such a type. The original name\u00a0<b>MIME type<\/b>\u00a0referred to usage to identify non-ASCII parts of email messages composed using the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) specification. Without MIME types, email clients would not be able to understand if an attachment file were a graphics file or a spreadsheet etc. and would not be able to handle the attachment appropriately. \u00a0<a title=\"Internet media type\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_media_type\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listed as serveral <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a> used for the\u00a0<a title=\"The web's most popular video player\" href=\"http:\/\/www.longtailvideo.com\/jw-player\/\" target=\"_blank\">JW Player<\/a>\u00a0 video which you may want to stream content on your intranet\/internet site.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MP4 ( .m4v, .f4v, .mov )<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>video\/x-m4v = .m4v<\/li>\n<li>video\/x-f4v = .f4v<\/li>\n<li>video\/x-mov = .mov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Step1. <\/strong>Open IIS6 &#8211; Internet Information Server and find the tab HTTP Headers.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1269\" alt=\"iis 6 mime-type example 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type1.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type1-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step2. &#8211; <\/strong>Open the <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a>\u00a0button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1270\" alt=\"mime-type2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type2.jpg\" width=\"471\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type2.jpg 471w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type2-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong> Step 3. &#8211; <\/strong>Hit the new tab where you will add the new <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1271\" alt=\"mime-type3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type3.jpg\" width=\"472\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type3.jpg 472w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type3-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Step 4. &#8211; <\/strong>Where extension is list add the extension eg: .m4v and where it list <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a>\u00a0add the appropriate\u00a0mime type for the extension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1272\" alt=\"mime-type4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type4.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type4.jpg 470w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type4-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Step 5<\/strong>. \u00a0&#8211; Follow the steps for all other <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a>\u00a0you would like to add be it for video and audio.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1273\" alt=\"mime-type5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type5.jpg\" width=\"472\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type5.jpg 472w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type5-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1274\" alt=\"mime-type6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type6.jpg\" width=\"472\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type6.jpg 472w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type6-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your listed <a title=\"A list of Mime Types\" href=\"What is a MIME type?\" target=\"_blank\">Mime Types<\/a>\u00a0will show up after you finish added each one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"mime type example\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mime-type7.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Internet media type[1] is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,2,286,279],"tags":[587,585,586,582,583,584,588,581,590,589],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iis","category-web-development","category-windows-os","category-windows-servers-20032008","tag-adding-mime-types","tag-apache-mime-types","tag-how-to-add-mime-types","tag-iis-6","tag-iis-7","tag-iis-mime-types","tag-internet-media-type","tag-mime-types","tag-mime-types-listing","tag-rfc-2046"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}