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A media type is a general category of data content in internet. It was originally known as MIME type and devised to define the content of e-mails. The name changed, because now the term is used in a wider range of applications.

Content type is the same as media type, but it is used in the context of an HTTP header.

	Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

A media type is composed of a type and a subtype. Common media types are:

• text/plain
• application/json
• application/javascript
• application/xml

An HTML form can only be submitted with one of the following types:

• application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• multipart/form-data
• text/plain

Normally application/x-www-form-urlencoded is the default, whereas multipart/form-data is used with binary data.