MIME type for msgpack?

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msgpack seems to be an extremely fast, if extremely new format for data serialisation. Does it have a recognised MIME type yet? If not, what should be used in the interim?

score 50 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 07 '21 at 05:46

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From Wikipedia : According to RFC 6838 (published in January 2013 : https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6838), any use of types in the "x." tree is strongly discouraged. Media types with names beginning with "x-" are no longer considered to be members of this tree since January 2013.

Then use directly application/msgpack

edited Oct 07 '21 at 05:46

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answered Sep 17 '14 at 08:51

Nelson G.

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score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 31 '11 at 10:43

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According to a quick Google the overwhelming answer is application/x-msgpack. However, I can't find an authorative source.

answered Jul 31 '11 at 10:43

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And according to an overwhelmingly quick Google search, this is now the first result, so thank you! – Ben Kreeger Aug 15 '13 at 23:16
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The goal is to use `application/msgpack` see https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/issues/194 – aggsol Apr 18 '19 at 07:54
I would go with `application/msgpack` – Debjit Aug 31 '22 at 20:39

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 31 '11 at 23:20

application/x-msgpack is probably the correct MIME header, however a small caution to future readers: relying on a MIME type for anything beyond high-level information is dangerous (at best) because the structure and meaning of the message is dynamic in nature.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 10:35

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Application types:

application/msgpack
application/x-msgpack
application/*+msgpack

answered Sep 03 '20 at 10:35

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MIME type for msgpack?

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