HTML/Mimetype/html

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text/html mime type is the recommended mime type for serving html documents. It is supported by all browsers since the beginning of html.

Servers

  • Configuring Apache
  • Configuring IIS

filename extension

Usually when a file is having .htm or .html, it is being interpreted by the filesystems as an html file.

History

A proposed registration started on November 1992 by a discussion on the mailing list www-talk.