Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

application/x-msdownload

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .MSDOWNLOAD files (MSDOWNLOAD File Format).

File Extension

.msdownload

Content-Type Header

Format Category

General Files

Standard Specification

IANA Registered Standard

Description & Usage

Binary or text file format identified by extension .msdownload

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .msdownload
types {
    application/x-msdownload    msdownload;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

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The official MIME content type for .msdownload files is "application/x-msdownload". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .msdownload data.