Media types

Commonly referred to as MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types, media types are used to identify the format of an HTTP message body. A media type is of the {type/subtype} format; examples are as follows:

• text/html
• image/png
• audio/mpeg
• video/avi

A request can be as follows:

    GET: 
    Host: 
    Accept:application/json, text/javascript 

The client is specifying which format it can receive data in.