diff --git a/caddyhttp/httpserver/context.go b/caddyhttp/httpserver/context.go
index 32ae2a40f..51e01c955 100644
--- a/caddyhttp/httpserver/context.go
+++ b/caddyhttp/httpserver/context.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
+	"path"
 	"strings"
 	"text/template"
 	"time"
@@ -158,6 +159,13 @@ func (c Context) StripHTML(s string) string {
 	return buf.String()
 }
 
+// Ext returns the suffix beginning at the final dot in the final
+// slash-separated element of the pathStr (or in other words, the
+// file extension).
+func (c Context) Ext(pathStr string) string {
+	return path.Ext(pathStr)
+}
+
 // StripExt returns the input string without the extension,
 // which is the suffix starting with the final '.' character
 // but not before the final path separator ('/') character.