What is Content – Type Header Field?

What is Content – Type Header Field?

Content-Type header field is often used to identify the Internet media type in the message body.

1. Media types have the common form of type/sub-type.

2. If this header field is not available, application/sdp is assumed.

3. If an Accept header field was available in the request, the response Content-Type must have a listed type, or a 415 Unsupported Media Type response must be returned.

4. The compact form is c.