diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index a20ae074..c9790b1c 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-- can we hjave .svg.gz as a suffix? should be possible
-
 - try:
 
 	$ vips avg broken.jpg[fail]
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/svgload.c b/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
index 9fd813c9..aa055506 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/svgload.c
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ static const char *vips_foreign_svg_suffs[] = {
 	 */
 #if LIBRSVG_CHECK_FEATURE(SVGZ)
 	".svgz",
+	".svg.gz",
 #endif
 	NULL
 };
@@ -482,7 +483,7 @@ vips_foreign_load_svg_is_a_buffer( const void *buf, size_t len )
 			return( FALSE );
 
 	for( i = 0; i < 200 && i < len - 5; i++ ) 
-		if( strncasecmp( str + i, "<svg", 4 ) == 0 )
+		if( g_ascii_strncasecmp( str + i, "<svg", 4 ) == 0 )
 			return( TRUE );
 
 	return( FALSE );
diff --git a/libvips/include/vips/util.h b/libvips/include/vips/util.h
index f08e71f5..01cd8091 100644
--- a/libvips/include/vips/util.h
+++ b/libvips/include/vips/util.h
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ void *vips_hash_table_map( GHashTable *hash,
 char *vips_strncpy( char *dest, const char *src, int n );
 char *vips_strrstr( const char *haystack, const char *needle );
 gboolean vips_ispostfix( const char *a, const char *b );
+gboolean vips_iscasepostfix( const char *a, const char *b );
 gboolean vips_isprefix( const char *a, const char *b );
 char *vips_break_token( char *str, const char *brk );
 
diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/util.c b/libvips/iofuncs/util.c
index 9838da20..48158410 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/util.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/util.c
@@ -319,6 +319,20 @@ vips_ispostfix( const char *a, const char *b )
 	return( strcmp( a + m - n, b ) == 0 );
 }
 
+/* Case-insensitive test for string b ends string a. ASCII strings only. 
+ */
+gboolean
+vips_iscasepostfix( const char *a, const char *b )
+{	
+	int m = strlen( a );
+	int n = strlen( b );
+
+	if( n > m )
+		return( FALSE );
+
+	return( strcasecmp( a + m - n, b ) == 0 );
+}
+
 /* Test for string a starts string b. a is a known-good string, b may be
  * random data. 
  */
@@ -461,30 +475,22 @@ int
 vips_filename_suffix_match( const char *path, const char *suffixes[] )
 {
 	char *basename;
-	char *suffix;
 	char *q;
-	const char **p;
 	int result;
+	const char **p;
 
-	/* Drop any directory components, we want ignore any '.' in there.
+	/* Drop any directory components.
 	 */
 	basename = g_path_get_basename( path );
 
-	/* Zap any trailing options.
+	/* Zap any trailing [] options.
 	 */
 	if( (q = (char *) vips__find_rightmost_brackets( basename )) ) 
 		*q = '\0';
 
-	/* And select just the '.' and to the right.
-	 */
-	if( (q = strrchr( basename, '.' )) )
-		suffix = q;
-	else
-		suffix = basename;
-
 	result = 0;
-	for( p = suffixes; *p; p++ )
-		if( g_ascii_strcasecmp( suffix, *p ) == 0 ) {
+	for( p = suffixes; *p; p++ ) 
+		if( vips_iscasepostfix( basename, *p ) ) {
 			result = 1;
 			break;
 		}
diff --git a/test/images/vips-profile.svg.gz b/test/images/vips-profile.svg.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ccb610f
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/images/vips-profile.svg.gz differ
diff --git a/test/test_foreign.py b/test/test_foreign.py
index 80a84d8d..edbf9802 100755
--- a/test/test_foreign.py
+++ b/test/test_foreign.py
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ class TestForeign(unittest.TestCase):
         self.cmyk_pdf_file = "images/cmyktest.pdf"
         self.svg_file = "images/vips-profile.svg"
         self.svgz_file = "images/vips-profile.svgz"
+        self.svg_gz_file = "images/vips-profile.svg.gz"
 
         self.colour = Vips.Image.jpegload(self.jpeg_file)
         self.mono = self.colour.extract_band(1)
@@ -501,6 +502,8 @@ class TestForeign(unittest.TestCase):
         self.file_loader("svgload", self.svgz_file, svg_valid)
         self.buffer_loader("svgload_buffer", self.svgz_file, svg_valid)
 
+        self.file_loader("svgload", self.svg_gz_file, svg_valid)
+
         im = Vips.Image.new_from_file(self.svg_file)
         x = Vips.Image.new_from_file(self.svg_file, scale = 2)
         self.assertLess(abs(im.width * 2 - x.width), 2)