20067 2012-11-23 16:55:34 +0000 Describe how to parse MIME types 2013-05-27 20:59:38 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG MIME unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal Unsorted 1 gphemsley gphemsley mike sideshowbarker+mimespec oldest_to_newest 78709 0 gphemsley 2012-11-23 16:55:34 +0000 Roughly: type/subtype; name1=value1; name2=value2; ... (.+)\/(.+)(?:;\s*(?:(.+)\s*(?:=\s*(.*))?)?)* \1 = type \2 = subtype { \3 = parameter name \4 = parameter value }* 87367 1 gphemsley 2013-05-07 18:37:45 +0000 I added a work-in-progress algorithm for this a few months back: https://github.com/whatwg/mimesniff/commit/d4a84208820af1e74a8d4176ad6966aa294d9127 http://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#parsing-a-mime-type But it's been suggested that I use some ABNF and error handling instead, so I might choose to do that in the future. 88259 2 gphemsley 2013-05-27 20:59:38 +0000 I've made enough changes to the algorithm recently that I think this is reasonably complete. (Problems should go in new bugs.)