Title: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection
Author(s): D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Smith, D. Soroka.
Status: INFORMATIONAL
Date: Sep 2000
Length: 25238
Entities composing web pages to provide services over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) frequently have the problem of not knowing what Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types have handlers installed at a user's browser. For example, whether an Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) or VRML or SET or some streaming media handler is available. In some cases they would want to display different web pages or content depending on a MIME handler's availability. This document summarizes reasonable techniques to solve this problem for most of the browsers actually deployed on the Internet as of early 2000. It is intended to be of practical use to implementors during the period before the wide deployment of superior standards based techniques which may be developed.
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