When working with TAR files, I've run across the MIME type
application/x-tar
However I am not sure it is right, because
MIME types in the x- namespace are considered experimental
and it seems odd to me for venerable TAR.
Are there any recent RFC about MIME and TAR ? And what's about widespread HTTP server and browsers support ?
The MIME type for an uncompressed TAR file as mentioned in Wikipedia is application/x-tar.
Refer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats