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Asked: 2026-05-16T16:38:42+00:00

I am modifying a rails server to handle binary plist from an iPhone client

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I am modifying a rails server to handle binary plist from an iPhone client via POST and PUT requests. The content type for text plist is text/plist, as far as I can tell. I would like the server to handle both text and binary plists, so I would like to distinguish between the two forms. What is the content type for binary plist?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I believe that most binary formats are preceded by application so maybe application/plist.

    See the bottom of RFC1341.

    Update

    Like Pumbaa80 mentioned, since application/plist is not a standard mime-type it should be application/x-plist.

    In RFC2045 it explains this:

    In the future, more top-level types
    may be defined only by a standards-track extension to this standard.
    If another top-level type is to be used for any reason, it must be
    given a name starting with “X-” to indicate its non-standard status
    and to avoid a potential conflict with a future official name.

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