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 RFC&thinsp;2046 Media Types November 1996
 
 
  A. Collected Grammar .................................... 43
 
 1. Introduction
 
  The first document in this set, RFC&thinsp;2045, defines a number of header
  fields, including Content-Type. The Content-Type field is used to
  specify the nature of the data in the body of a MIME entity, by
  giving media type and subtype identifiers, and by providing auxiliary
  information that may be required for certain media types. After the
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