Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 21:31, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:13, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:22, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > 
> > > Comments?  Questions?  Concerns?
> > 
> > Has wildcarding or regexps been considered?
> > 
> > For example it could be convenient to be able to write
> >   MimeType=text/*;application/*xml;
> 
> That would be a _really_ bad idea.  But since we have type inheritance,
> it isn't necessary.  All MIME types that are compatible with text/plain
> should inherit from it, so anything that supports text/plain will
> support them as well.

Cool, that's a lot better indeed.  Is it implemented somewhere already?