Hello,

I am not especially excited about it. The fact that some mime-types are hard coded, and others are not is an annoying 'inconsistency'. 

There is no way to extend the list of supported types in user apps. And typeByExt has a rather limited set up extensions, declaring everything else to be application/octet-stream.

The use of a type for the mime-types implies that you want to be pattern matching on the constructors in your code ? Can you give a use case for that ?

- jeremy

On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

Hi all,

In Yesod, I have very modest needs when it comes to mime-types. Basically, I want:

* a data type to represent mime-types
* convert a string to a mime-type
* convert a mime-type to a string
* determine mime-type of a file based on extension

I've stuck all this in a simple module: Web.Mime[1]. However, it seems like this is a perfect candidate for a dedicated package. So I wanted to ask:

1) Is there a package out there- with minimal dependencies- that supplies this functionality?
2) If not, would anyone else find it useful if I split this off into its own package?

Michael

[1] http://github.com/snoyberg/yesod/blob/ver0.2/Web/Mime.hs
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