On 18/01/13 11:35, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Konstantin Tokarev <annu...@yandex.ru> wrote: >> >> >> 18.01.2013, 12:44, "Mandeep Sandhu" <mandeepsandhu....@gmail.com>: >>>> to know a minimum of 3 technologies, but more like 6: HTML, JS, CSS, >>>> MIME, >>> >>> MIME's a tech?!?! I thought it's just a standard used in emails and >>> HTTP headers to define the content type. >> >> It's also a common way to distinguish file types on Unix-like systems. > > OT, but isn't that done by examining file extensions or file headers > (like how the 'file' command works in Linux)?
Once you've detected what the data is, you need to tell whomever asked about it what it actually is. You need a communication protocol for that. Like MIME. So you get the request "what is this data?" You look at it, and then answer "audio/mpeg", which is a MIME type. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
