Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

application/x-tar

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .TAR files (Tape Archive).

File Extension

.tar

Content-Type Header

application/x-tar

Format Category

Description & Usage

POSIX standard archive format used in Unix and Linux operating systems.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

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

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

Respuestas claras a las preguntas más habituales.

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