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MIME Sniffing Standard MIME Sniffing Living Standard — Last Updated 19 October 2026 Participate: GitHub whatwg/mimesniff (new issue, open issues) Chat on Matrix Commits: GitHub whatwg/mimesniff/commits Snapshot as of this commit Tests: web-platform-tests mimesniff/ (ongoing work) Translations (non-normative): 日本語 简体中文 한국어 Abstract The MIME Sniffing standard defines sniffing resources. 1.
A computed MIME type, the MIME type determined by the MIME type sniffing algorithm. 5.1.
However, opting out of sniffing does not exempt the user agent from using the MIME type sniffing algorithm.
Content sniffing, also known as media type sniffing or MIME sniffing, is the practice of inspecting the content of a byte stream to attempt to deduce the file format of the data within it.
Content sniffing is generally used to compensate for a lack of accurate metadata that would otherwise be required to enable the file to be interpreted correctly.
Content sniffing techniques tend to use a mixture of techniques that rely on the redundancy found in most file formats: looking for file signatures and magic numbers, and heuristics including searching for well-known representative substrings, the use of byte frequency and n-gram tables, and Bayesian inference.
Research query: MIME sniffing · jobs: 2 · on-topic sources: 2 · review: Held
However, opting out of sniffing does not exempt the user agent from using the MIME type sniffing algorithm. — MIME Sniffing Standard (2026)
Content sniffing, also known as media type sniffing or MIME sniffing, is the practice of inspecting the content of a byte stream to attempt to deduce the file format of the data within it. — Content sniffing (wikipedia)
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Content sniffing (wikipedia)
Content sniffing, also known as media type sniffing or MIME sniffing, is the practice of inspecting the content of a byte stream to attempt to deduce the file format of the data within it. (new this job) — source
Content sniffing is generally used to compensate for a lack of accurate metadata that would otherwise be required to enable the file to be interpreted correctly. (new this job) — source
Content sniffing techniques tend to use a mixture of techniques that rely on the redundancy found in most file formats: looking for file signatures and magic numbers, and heuristics including searching for well-known representative substrings, the use of byte frequency and n-gram tables, and Bayesian inference. (new this job) — source
MIME Sniffing Standard (2026)
MIME Sniffing Standard MIME Sniffing Living Standard — Last Updated 19 October 2026 Participate: GitHub whatwg/mimesniff (new issue, open issues) Chat on Matrix Commits: GitHub whatwg/mimesniff/commits Snapshot as of this commit Tests: web-platform-tests mimesniff/ (ongoing work) Translations (non-normative): 日本語 简体中文 한국어 Abstract The MIME Sniffing standard defines sniffing resources. 1. — source
A computed MIME type, the MIME type determined by the MIME type sniffing algorithm. 5.1. — source
However, opting out of sniffing does not exempt the user agent from using the MIME type sniffing algorithm. — source
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