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>Very yes. Though unix has extensionless files, the web and MIME are defacto
>using suffixes for file type id.
Well, they do and they don't. MIME provides a way of supplying the type of
some content along with the data itself. That mechanism in itself does not
rely on file extensions. However, certain software (such as email clients
and web servers) use lookup tables to map file extensions to MIME types on
those occasions where they must somehow conjure up a type without asking a
user for it. But once a file is encoded with MIME, its original extension
becomes meaningless because its type is carried along explicitly.
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