Media type wild cards

[Jørn Wildt]

Has anyone done any work on media type wild card specifications (like filename wild cards)?

In HTML forms we can have <input type="file" accept=""> where the accept attribute contains a comma separated list of media types (see http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/interact/forms.html#adef-accept).

But that seems rather cumbersome if my server accepts all kinds of images. In that case I would like to write <... accept="image/*">.

So ... is there any prior work on this?

My specific scenario is to be able to specify accepted media types in a upload-action in Mason.

/Jørn

[darrel...@gmail.com]

What kind of work are you looking for?  I have a parser that deals with the wildcards and the qvalues if that is of any use.

Darrel

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[Jørn Wildt]

Mostly some sort of standard for what is possible/well known syntax.

/Jørn

[Peter Williams]

What about the `media-range` production from section 14.1 of <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html>?

Peter

[Jørn Wildt]

@Peter, thanks, that was the kind of thing I was looking for.

/Jørn