diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index 7b55b7b..8795bbc 100644
--- a/cgit.c
+++ b/cgit.c
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ static void cgit_print_repo_page(struct cacheitem *item)
 	if ((cgit_cmd == CMD_SNAPSHOT) && cgit_repo->snapshots) {
 		cgit_print_snapshot(item, cgit_query_sha1,
 				    cgit_repobasename(cgit_repo->url),
-				    cgit_query_name);
+				    cgit_query_name,
+				    cgit_repo->snapshots );
 		return;
 	}
 
diff --git a/cgit.h b/cgit.h
index 1dbf901..ea61be7 100644
--- a/cgit.h
+++ b/cgit.h
@@ -235,7 +235,9 @@ extern void cgit_print_tree(const char *rev, char *path);
 extern void cgit_print_commit(char *hex);
 extern void cgit_print_diff(const char *new_hex, const char *old_hex);
 extern void cgit_print_snapshot(struct cacheitem *item, const char *hex,
-				const char *prefix, const char *filename);
-extern void cgit_print_snapshot_links(const char *repo, const char *hex);
+				const char *prefix, const char *filename,
+				int snapshot);
+extern void cgit_print_snapshot_links(const char *repo, const char *hex,int snapshots);
+extern int cgit_parse_snapshots_mask(const char *str);
 
 #endif /* CGIT_H */
diff --git a/cgitrc b/cgitrc
index 40877f8..1040997 100644
--- a/cgitrc
+++ b/cgitrc
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 #nocache=0
 
 
-## Enable/disable snapshots by default. This can be overridden per repo
+## Set allowed snapshot types by default. Can be overridden per repo
+# can be any combination of zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar
 #snapshots=0
 
 
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@
 #repo.desc=the caching cgi for git
 #repo.path=/pub/git/cgit
 #repo.owner=Lars Hjemli
-#repo.snapshots=1				# override a sitewide snapshot-setting
+#repo.snapshots=tar.bz2				# override a sitewide snapshot-setting
 #repo.enable-log-filecount=0			# override the default filecount setting
 #repo.enable-log-linecount=0			# override the default linecount setting
 #repo.module-link=/git/%s/commit/?id=%s		# override the standard module-link
diff --git a/shared.c b/shared.c
index 65fc8b2..ccbde27 100644
--- a/shared.c
+++ b/shared.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ void cgit_global_config_cb(const char *name, const char *value)
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "nocache"))
 		cgit_nocache = atoi(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "snapshots"))
-		cgit_snapshots = atoi(value);
+		cgit_snapshots = cgit_parse_snapshots_mask(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "enable-index-links"))
 		cgit_enable_index_links = atoi(value);
 	else if (!strcmp(name, "enable-log-filecount"))
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ void cgit_global_config_cb(const char *name, const char *value)
 	else if (cgit_repo && !strcmp(name, "repo.defbranch"))
 		cgit_repo->defbranch = xstrdup(value);
 	else if (cgit_repo && !strcmp(name, "repo.snapshots"))
-		cgit_repo->snapshots = cgit_snapshots * atoi(value);
+		cgit_repo->snapshots = cgit_snapshots & cgit_parse_snapshots_mask(value); /* XXX: &? */
 	else if (cgit_repo && !strcmp(name, "repo.enable-log-filecount"))
 		cgit_repo->enable_log_filecount = cgit_enable_log_filecount * atoi(value);
 	else if (cgit_repo && !strcmp(name, "repo.enable-log-linecount"))
diff --git a/ui-commit.c b/ui-commit.c
index bf5e6dc..50e9e11 100644
--- a/ui-commit.c
+++ b/ui-commit.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ void cgit_print_commit(char *hex)
 	}
 	if (cgit_repo->snapshots) {
 		html("<tr><th>download</th><td colspan='2' class='sha1'>");
-		cgit_print_snapshot_links(cgit_query_repo,hex);
+		cgit_print_snapshot_links(cgit_query_repo,hex,cgit_repo->snapshots);
 		html("</td></tr>");
 	}
 	html("</table>\n");
diff --git a/ui-snapshot.c b/ui-snapshot.c
index 053fd48..d6be55b 100644
--- a/ui-snapshot.c
+++ b/ui-snapshot.c
@@ -57,21 +57,25 @@ static const struct snapshot_archive_t {
     	const char *suffix;
 	const char *mimetype;
 	write_archive_fn_t write_func;
+	int bit;
 }	snapshot_archives[] = {
-	{ ".zip", "application/x-zip", write_zip_archive },
-	{ ".tar.gz", "application/x-tar", write_tar_gzip_archive },
-	{ ".tar.bz2", "application/x-tar", write_tar_bzip2_archive },
-	{ ".tar", "application/x-tar", write_tar_archive }
+	{ ".zip", "application/x-zip", write_zip_archive, 0x1 },
+	{ ".tar.gz", "application/x-tar", write_tar_gzip_archive, 0x2 },
+	{ ".tar.bz2", "application/x-tar", write_tar_bzip2_archive, 0x4 },
+	{ ".tar", "application/x-tar", write_tar_archive, 0x8 }
 };
 
 void cgit_print_snapshot(struct cacheitem *item, const char *hex, 
-			 const char *prefix, const char *filename)
+			 const char *prefix, const char *filename,
+			 int snapshots)
 {
 	int fnl = strlen(filename);
 	int f;
     	for(f=0;f<(sizeof(snapshot_archives)/sizeof(*snapshot_archives));++f) {
 		const struct snapshot_archive_t* sat = &snapshot_archives[f];
-		int sl = strlen(sat->suffix);
+		int sl;
+		if(!(snapshots&sat->bit)) continue;
+		sl = strlen(sat->suffix);
 		if(fnl<sl || strcmp(&filename[fnl-sl],sat->suffix))
 			continue;
 
@@ -101,16 +105,41 @@ void cgit_print_snapshot(struct cacheitem *item, const char *hex,
 	cgit_print_error(fmt("Unsupported snapshot format: %s", filename));
 }
 
-void cgit_print_snapshot_links(const char *repo,const char *hex)
+void cgit_print_snapshot_links(const char *repo,const char *hex,int snapshots)
 {
     	char *filename;
 	int f;
     	for(f=0;f<(sizeof(snapshot_archives)/sizeof(*snapshot_archives));++f) {
 		const struct snapshot_archive_t* sat = &snapshot_archives[f];
+		if(!(snapshots&sat->bit)) continue;
 		filename = fmt("%s-%s%s",cgit_repobasename(repo),hex,sat->suffix);
 		htmlf("<a href='%s'>%s</a><br/>",
 			cgit_fileurl(repo,"snapshot",filename,
 			    fmt("id=%s&amp;name=%s",hex,filename)), filename);
 	}
 }
+
+int cgit_parse_snapshots_mask(const char *str)
+{
+	static const char *delim = " \t,:/|;";
+	int f, tl, rv = 0;
+	/* favor legacy setting */
+	if(atoi(str)) return 1;
+	for(;;) {
+		str += strspn(str,delim);
+		tl = strcspn(str,delim);
+		if(!tl)
+			break;
+		for(f=0;f<(sizeof(snapshot_archives)/sizeof(*snapshot_archives));++f) {
+			const struct snapshot_archive_t* sat = &snapshot_archives[f];
+			if(! ( strncmp(sat->suffix,str,tl) && strncmp(sat->suffix+1,str,tl-1) ) ) {
+				rv |= sat->bit;
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		str += tl;
+	}
+	return rv;
+}
+
 /* vim:set sw=8: */