Force nginx to send specific Content-Type

nginx http-headers content-type
Kasheftin picture Kasheftin · Oct 28, 2013 · Viewed 89.2k times · Source

How to overwrite default Content-Type in nginx? Currently when I request 01.dae file, there's 

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;

And I want it to be 

Content-Type: application/xml;

I tried something like 

location ~* \.dae$ {
  types { };
  default_type application/xml;
}

and

location ~* \.dae$ {
  add_header Content-Type application/xml;
}

but nothing works.

Answer

Oleg Neumyvakin picture Oleg Neumyvakin · Oct 25, 2015

In case you have no file extension:

location ~ something {
   default_type application/xml;
}

Nginx docs for default_type

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