Force nginx to send specific Content-Type

Question

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 1

In case you have no file extension:

location ~ something {    default_type application/xml; } 

Nginx docs for default_type

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Answer 2

You can edit /etc/nginx/mime.types and add it

types {     application/xml        dae; } 

I haven't found the the exact string application/xml in my mime.types so I suppose you can directly include it inside your server block, in the server scope or something.