content-type to be used for uploading svg images to AWS S3

Question

I was trying to upload *.svg images to S3 without specifying any Content-type. This upload works successfully and AWS sets Content-Type as binary/octet-stream by default. Now, when I try to use S3 url of image in my browser, the browser does not render the image and throws incorrect mime-type warning.

To set the correct mime-type I checked list of Content-type which AWS offers but it does not have "image/svg+xml".

So I wanted to know if anyone has tried to upload svg images to S3? What is the content-type set in that case? Or is there any other compatible Content-type that can be used for uploading svg images to S3?

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

As you mentioned, the correct Content-Type for SVG files is "image/svg+xml".

Even if the AWS console does not provide that value in the Content-Type selection field, you can enter it anyway and S3 will accept it.

AWS specifies the following in their API docs for the Content-Type header:

A standard MIME type describing the format of the contents. For more information, go to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.17.

Type: String

Default: binary/octet-stream

Valid Values: MIME types

Constraints: None

For additional details see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectPUT.html