---
id: 505
title: "[MoBP] Intelligent MIME type recognition"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/blog/mobp-intelligent-mime-type-recognition"
published_at: "2008-11-11T07:03:00Z"
tags: ["burp-suite", "web-security", "proxy", "portswigger", "tooling", "mime-types"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/505"
lang: en
---

# [MoBP] Intelligent MIME type recognition

## Summary

The new Burp uses heuristic rules to identify response content types rather than trusting the often-wrong Content-type header, informing display filters, spider parsing and vulnerability checks.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2008-11-11T07:03:00Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/blog/mobp-intelligent-mime-type-recognition
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/505