MIME Types

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Note on MIME Types:

All the examples in this guide use the JSON MIME type and we write them as cURL commands.

Following the standard approach to designing REST web-services, the HTTP accept header specifies an ordered list of MIME types that are acceptable by the client. The implementation of the server supports the following MIME types:

• application/json for JSON content
• application/xml for XML content

Optionally, the following MIME types we may also support:

• (X)HTML text/html
• application/xhtml+xml

We specify the actual MIME type sent by the server in response to an API request within the HTTP response content-type header.

In addition to the headers, you can also use resource and file extensions to specify MIME types (.json for JSON content, or .xml for XML content).

Authorized Types of Extensions for Comment Attachments

For any comment you want to post, you can also add a MIME type to include different types of attachments. The following is a list of the authorized extensions and MIME Types for comment attachments.

Extension	Type of Document	MIME Type
.json	JSON Format	application/json
.xml	XML	application/xml
.gif	Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)	image/gif
.png	Portable Network Graphics	image/png
.jpg, .jpeg	JPEG images	image/jpeg
.zip	ZIP archive	application/zip
.tar	Tape Archive (TAR)	application/x-tar
.tar.gz, .tgz	GZip	application/gzip
.pdf	Adobe Portable Document Format	application/pdf
.txt	Text	text/plain, text/css, text/html, text/javascript

Authorized Types of Extensions for Answer Attachments

For any answer you want to post, you can also add a MIME type to include different types of attachments. The following is a list of the authorized extensions and MIME Types for answer attachments.

Extension	Type of Document	MIME Type
.json	JSON Format	application/json
.xml	XML	application/xml
.gif	Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)	image/gif
.png	Portable Network Graphics	image/png
.jpg, .jpeg	JPEG images	image/jpeg