MIME: les RFCs


MIME est un standard très complet et est donc défini par de nombreuses RFCs.

RFCs principales:

  • RFC 2045: MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
  • RFC 2046: MIME Part Two: Media Types
  • RFC 2047: MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
  • RFC 2048: MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures
  • RFC 2049: MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples


RFCs secondaires:
  • RFC 1524: The formal description of mailcap files. Mailcap files describe how to handle media types.
  • RFC 2015: MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
  • RFC 2110: MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
  • RFC 2111: Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators.
  • RFC 2112: The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type.
  • RFC 2183: Defines the syntax and sematics of the "Content-Disposition" header to convey presentational information.
  • RFC 2184: MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations