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MIME Application/zip

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The mime application/zip content type describes a file as being a compressed archive file, most likely a ZIP file. ZIP files are created by decompression utilities such as WinZIP. These utilities take one or more large files and compress them into a smaller archive file which allows for easier file transmissions and reduced storage space requirements.

One of the problems with using the mime application/zip to identify the ZIP file is that it only identifies the compressed file, not archive’s contents. For example, a ZIP file can contain one or more different files of virtually any type. It could contain documents, executables, images, and so on.

When the email program encounters mime application/zip, it understands that the file is a compressed zip file but it doesn’t necessarily know what files are contained within it. Because of this, the multipart/mixed media type is often used in lieu of the mime application/zip with each contained file being described with its own MIME type.

In fact, in the documentation originally provided when mime application/zip was requested, the author said that the file type was not recommended for normal use because the content type for the archive’s files were not known and that multipart/mixed should be used.

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