ApplicationBinary

application/x-redhat-package-manager

RPM Package

Reference for the RPM MIME type used for software packages on Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and SUSE Linux systems.

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Expected extensions: .rpm

HTTP Content-Type Header

HTTP Header
Content-Type: application/x-redhat-package-manager

Associated File Extensions

.rpm

Quick Facts

MIME Typeapplication/x-redhat-package-manager
CategoryApplication
TypeBinary
Extensions.rpm

Common Usage

RPM files are the software package format for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE, and their derivatives. They contain compiled binaries, metadata, dependency information, and install/uninstall scripts.

Managed by rpm, yum, and dnf package managers.

Code Examples

HTML
<!-- Link or embed with explicit type -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.rpm" type="application/x-redhat-package-manager">

<!-- Or for script/media elements -->
<script type="application/x-redhat-package-manager" src="file.rpm"></script>
Node.js
// Express.js
app.get('/file', (req, res) => {
  res.type('application/x-redhat-package-manager');
  res.send(data);
});

// Node.js http
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-redhat-package-manager' });
nginx
# nginx.conf — add to types block or use default
types {
    application/x-redhat-package-manager  rpm;
}

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

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