.plist (Property List) File Mime Type

04/08/2010 – 12:32 pm

Most plist (prop­erty lists) files gen­er­ated by iOS are just xml, so use the mime type:

application/xml

By default plist files cre­ated by Mac OS X use bin­ary with the mime type:

application/x-plist
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3 Comments

  1. Zing
    Posted 15/06/2011 at 3:06 am | Permalink

    Incorrect. Some .plist files are bin­ary or non-XML text.

  2. Ben Collier
    Posted 18/06/2011 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the heads up, at the time of writ­ing I was mainly deal­ing with iPhone plist files which are gen­er­ally XML based. I’ve updated now with the mime type for bin­ary plists, which I believe are the default for Mac OS gen­er­ated plists.

  3. Damodar
    Posted 04/07/2011 at 10:26 am | Permalink

    Thanks Ben and Zing,

    So its safer to use bin­ary mime type : application/x-plist

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