Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

image/tiff

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

File Extension

.tiff

Content-Type Header

image/tiff

Format Category

Images

Standard Specification

TIFF 6.0 Spec

Description & Usage

High-quality uncompressed raster format preferred in publishing and print scanning.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .tiff
types {
    image/tiff    tiff;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

Want to test header signatures or binary files?

Run binary magic byte inspection in Magic Byte Detector.

Preguntas frecuentes

Respuestas claras a las preguntas más habituales.

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