2. HTML Specification
The World Wide Web initiative (WWW) links information throughout the world. To do this, WWW uses the Internet Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which allows transfer representations to be negotiated between client and server. Results are returned in a MIME body part.
HTML is one of the representations used by WWW, and is proposed as a MIME content type. The definition of the HTML Content-Type is text/html, and has three optional parameters:
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