Regex links
Regex (regular expresssion) is referred to as 正規表現(せいきひょうげん) in Japanese. And people like to say that Japanese technical language is all straight from English. I think not.
www.silveragesoftware.com has some nice explanations.
There's a sample chapter of Jeffrey Friedl's Regex book.
This page on applying url redirects in Apache gave me some hints on how to write the regex I wanted.
This regex testing page let me test out my expression:
.+\.(bmp|gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
Basically I need to only allow files with the above extensions.