Media Types Family

This page presents media types for which Wireshark provides dissection.

Media Type aware Protocols

The media dissectors depend upon media-type aware protocols, like:

• HTTP: WWW

• JXTA: JXTA Peer-to-Peer

• RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol (RFC 2326)

• SIP: Voice over IP telephony

• SMTP: e-mail

• WSP: WAP

Wireshark Media Type dissectors

The following media types are dissected:

• Application/ISUP: ISUP Messages sent in the body of SIP messages, SIP-T.

• GIF: a common image file format.

• JPEG_JFIF: a common image file format.

• JXTA: JXTA Binary Message envelopes.

• Line_based_text: generic text.

• MIME_multipart: an encapsulation scheme.

• MSN messenger: an instant messaging service.

• PNG: a common image file format.

• SDP: Session Description Protocol (RFC 2327)

• WBXML: a compact binary encoding of certain XML content, used in the WapProtocolFamily.

Example capture file

See the protocols and Media Types pages for example capture files.

External Links

• IANA media types the IANA list of MIME types

• RFC2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

• RFC2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types

• RFC2047 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text

• RFC2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures

• RFC2049 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

Discussion

• I didn't add any of the PKIX MIME types because I'm not sure they are real MIME types.
• The WAP types set is incomplete.

• The text type should probably broken up to discuss dissection of plain text, html & xml