Question

What is MIME? What is it used for? Why is it needed? What is "NSA" after MIME encoding? Hint: look up the 8-bit ASCII codes for N, S and A.

Answer 1

MIME:

MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).It is is an Internet standard.MIME is an extension of the original Internet e-mail protocol and Using Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) you can exchange different types of data files on the internet.

1. 1)MIME Supports one or more attachments in a single mail or message.
2. It is also supports non-ASCII characters
3. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) supports for attachments include executables, audio files ,pictures and video files, and etc.
4. MIME also support unlimited message length.

There are many predefined MIME types, they are GIF graphics files and PostScript files.and MIME is also possible to define your own MIME types.

NEED:

MIME is needed for identify file types by their extensions.MIME is a way of identifying files on the Internet according to their nature and format of files.