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diff --git a/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py b/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
index cf239805c..e49309ef2 100644
--- a/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
+++ b/qutebrowser/utils/utils.py
@@ -803,3 +803,38 @@ def parse_duration(duration: str) -> int:
hours = float(hours_string.rstrip('h'))
milliseconds = int((seconds + minutes * 60 + hours * 3600) * 1000)
return milliseconds
+
+
+def mimetype_extension(mimetype: str) -> Optional[str]:
+ """Get a suitable extension for a given mimetype.
+
+ This mostly delegates to Python's mimetypes.guess_extension(), but backports some
+ changes (via a simple override dict) which are missing from earlier Python versions.
+ Most likely, this can be dropped once the minimum Python version is raised to 3.7.
+ """
+ overrides = {
+ # Added around 3.8
+ "application/manifest+json": ".webmanifest",
+ "application/x-hdf5": ".h5",
+
+ # Added in Python 3.7
+ "application/wasm": ".wasm",
+
+ # Wrong values for Python 3.6
+ # https://bugs.python.org/issue1043134
+ # https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14375
+ "application/octet-stream": ".bin", # not .a
+ "application/postscript": ".ps", # not .ai
+ "application/vnd.ms-excel": ".xls", # not .xlb
+ "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint": ".ppt", # not .pot
+ "application/xml": ".xsl", # not .rdf
+ "audio/mpeg": ".mp3", # not .mp2
+ "image/jpeg": ".jpg", # not .jpe
+ "image/tiff": ".tiff", # not .tif
+ "text/html": ".html", # not .htm
+ "text/plain": ".txt", # not .bat
+ "video/mpeg": ".mpeg", # not .m1v
+ }
+ if mimetype in overrides:
+ return overrides[mimetype]
+ return mimetypes.guess_extension(mimetype, strict=False)