ApplicationBinary

`application/x-bzip2`

Bzip2

Reference for application/x-bzip2, the MIME type for bzip2-compressed data offering higher compression than gzip.

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Expected extensions: .bz2

HTTP Content-Type Header

HTTP Header

Content-Type: application/x-bzip2

Associated File Extensions

.bz2

Quick Facts

MIME Type	application/x-bzip2
Category	Application
Type	Binary
Extensions	.bz2

Common Usage

Bzip2 provides better compression ratios than gzip at the cost of slower speed. It is commonly used for compressing tar archives (.tar.bz2) on Linux systems, distributing source code, and archiving data where compression ratio matters more than speed.

Code Examples

HTML

<!-- Link or embed with explicit type -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.bz2" type="application/x-bzip2">

<!-- Or for script/media elements -->
<script type="application/x-bzip2" src="file.bz2"></script>

Node.js

// Express.js
app.get('/file', (req, res) => {
  res.type('application/x-bzip2');
  res.send(data);
});

// Node.js http
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-bzip2' });

nginx

# nginx.conf — add to types block or use default
types {
    application/x-bzip2  bz2;
}

# Or set for a specific location
location /api/ {
    default_type application/x-bzip2;
}