底下所展示的是一個大家都曉得的內容格式(content type)，並且對於作者所熟悉的 格式有一些評論。這份資訊由 WWW FAQ 的原作者書中的 appendix 2 中所找出來的， 這本書為 CGI Programming in C and Perl <URL:http://www.boutell.com/cgibook/> 。 原來的內容格式可以免費在 NCSA Web 伺服器 中取得。 <URL:http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/>
請注意︰新的媒體格式正有規則的加入已經存在的格式之中。官方登記的總是在 實際運用之後。這一份列表是以 1995 年九月， NCSA 所公佈的 Web 伺服器上 的資料為主。
這份文件對於資料的格式與 mime 格式的關聯來說並沒有什麼企圖，它只想要讓 決定哪一種內容格式應該被指定到哪一種應用程式的動作變得簡單。
Media Content Type Comments application/activemessage application/andrew-inset application/applefile application/atomicmail application/dca-rft application/dec-dx application/mac-binhex40 application/macwriteii MacWrite Document application/msword Microsoft Word Document application/news-message-id application/news-transmission application/octet-stream Use for binary file downloads application/oda application/pdf Adobe Acrobat Documents application/postscript Postscript application/remote-printing application/rtf Rich Text Format application/slate application/x-mif application/wita application/wordperfect5.1 WordPerfect 5.1 Documents application/wordperfect6.0 WordPerfect 6.0 Documents application/x-csh Potentially dangerous [1] application/x-dvi TeX/LaTeX Output (not TeX source) application/x-hdf application/x-latex LaTeX Source application/x-netcdf application/x-sh Potentially dangerous [1] application/x-tcl Potentially dangerous [1] application/x-tex TeX Source application/x-texinfo application/x-troff Troff Formatter Source application/x-troff-man Troff Source, -man argument assumed application/x-troff-me Troff Source, -me argument assumed application/x-troff-ms Troff Source, -ms argument assumed application/x-wais-source application/zip Many users have ZIP helper apps application/x-bcpio application/x-cpio cpio tape format (Unix) application/x-gtar gnu tar tape format (Unix) application/x-shar Potentially dangerous [1] application/x-sv4cpio application/x-sv4crc application/x-ustar audio/basic Sun-style .au format audio audio/x-aiff Amiga-format .aiff audio audio/x-wav Microsoft Windows-format .wav audio image/gif Compuserve GIF 8-bit lossless images image/ief image/jpeg JPEG lossy photographic images image/png w3 consortium PNG lossless images image/tiff TIFF format images image/x-cmu-raster image/x-portable-anymap netpbm/pbmplus images (any subtype) image/x-portable-bitmap netpbm/pbmplus black and white images image/x-portable-graymap netpbm/pbmplus grayscale images image/x-portable-pixmap netpbm/pbmplus truecolor images image/x-rgb image/x-xbitmap X Window System black and white images image/x-xpixmap X Window System color images image/x-xwindowdump X Window System screen dump format message/external-body message/news message/partial message/rfc822 multipart/alternative multipart/appledouble multipart/digest multipart/mixed Server push multipart/parallel text/html HTML documents text/x-sgml SGML documents, not limited to HTML text/plain Plain ASCII text text/richtext This is not RTF (see above) text/tab-separated-values Useful for spreadsheet interchange text/x-setext video/mpeg MPEG video format; common on PCs, Unix video/quicktime Apple video format video/x-msvideo Microsoft/Intel AVI video format video/x-sgi-movie[1]: 大部分的瀏覽器不應該被組態為可執行 shell script 程式。因為程式可以很 簡單的透過 rm * 或是其他有傷害的命令而使得您的機器或是帳號受到威脅。這些被 送到瀏覽器端的東西，應該考慮使用安全的程式語言，就像是 Java, Safe-TCL 以及 PGP-SafePerl.