How to generate AWS S3 pre-signed URL request without knowing Content-Type?

Question

I am generating in server side a pre-signed URL request with the following parameters for GeneratePresignedUrlRequest : bucket, key, expiration = in 1 hour and method = PUT.

In my Angular app, I am uploading the file using ng-file-upload

Upload.http({
    url: $scope.signedUrl,
    method: "PUT",
    headers : {
        'Content-Type': $scope.file.type
    },
    data: $scope.file
});

The problem is that I always have a 403 response unless I set the type of the file in GeneratePresignedUrlRequest.contentType.

The problem is that I can't predict in advance what type of file the user will choose (image/png, image/jpeg, text/plain...).

How can I generate a pre-signed url that accept all kinds of content-type ? I tried setting it to null, it keeps sending 403 errors.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I just ran into this problem, and just got it working. Replace your Upload.http code with the following:

var reader = new FileReader();
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

xhr.open("PUT", $scope.signedUrl);
reader.onload = function(evt) {
  xhr.send(evt.target.result);
};
reader.readAsArrayBuffer($scope.file);

The problem ends up being that S3 is looking for a specific Content-Type (binary/octet-stream), which it infers when you omit the Content-Type header.