[jira] [Created] (JCLOUDS-595) Investigate removing default content type

["Andrew Gaul (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrew Gaul created JCLOUDS-595:
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             Summary: Investigate removing default content type
                 Key: JCLOUDS-595
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-595
             Project: jclouds
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: jclouds-core
            Reporter: Andrew Gaul
            Assignee: Jeremy Daggett


Presently {{ContentMetadataBuilder.contentType}} defaults to "application/unknown".  In many cases the application does not known the content type and might prefer to allow the object store to detect a more precise type which this default interferes with.  From section [7.2.1 of RFC 2616|
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1]:

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Any HTTP/1.1 message containing an entity-body SHOULD include a Content-Type header field defining the media type of that body. If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".
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