[ESBJAVA-2630] Content-Type: application/octet-stream eventhough the response comes as application/xml in PT Created: 06/Nov/13 Updated: 11/Nov/13 Resolved: 11/Nov/13 Status: Project: Component/s: Affects Version/s: Fix Version/s: Closed WSO2 ESB Core Engine 4.8.0 Type: Reporter: Resolution: Labels: Remaining Estimate: Time Spent: Original Estimate: Bug Ushani Balasooriya Not a bug None Not Specified Severity: Estimated Complexity: Attachment License: Major Moderate 4.8.0 Priority: Assignee: Votes: High dushan abeyruwan 0 Not Specified Not Specified I agree to grant a license to WSO2 for this work for inclusion in WSO2 works as per the WSO2 Contributor License Agreement and the Apache License 2.0 Test cases added: Yes Description Content-Type: application/octet-stream even-though the response comes as application/xml in PT. Was executing the REST Client and REST Service sample in http://docs.wso2.org/display/ESB480/Using+REST+with+a+Proxy+Service Following synapse has been used. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <definitions xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse"> <proxy name="CustomerServiceProxy" transports="https http" startOnLoad="true" trace="disable"> <description/> <target> <inSequence> <switch source="$axis2:HTTP_METHOD"> <case regex="GET"> <property name="HTTP_METHOD" value="GET" scope="axis2" type="STRING"/> </case> <case regex="POST"> <property name="HTTP_METHOD" value="POST" scope="axis2" type="STRING"/> </case> <default/> </switch> <send> <endpoint> <address uri="http://localhost:9774/jaxrs_basic/services/customers/customerservice" format="pox"/> </endpoint> </send> </inSequence> <outSequence> <send/> </outSequence> </target> </proxy> <sequence name="fault"> <log level="full"> <property name="MESSAGE" value="Executing default "fault" sequence"/> <property name="ERROR_CODE" expression="get-property('ERROR_CODE')"/> <property name="ERROR_MESSAGE" expression="get-property('ERROR_MESSAGE')"/> </log> <drop/> </sequence> <sequence name="main"> <log/> <drop/> </sequence> </definitions> Invoked via the following curl command, curl -v -i http://localhost:8280/services/CustomerServiceProxy/customers/123 Response came as following : > GET /services/CustomerServiceProxy/customers/123 HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3 > Host: localhost:8280 > Accept: / > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Type: application/octet-stream < Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:02:31 GMT Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:02:31 GMT < Server: WSO2-PassThrough-HTTP Server: WSO2-PassThrough-HTTP < Transfer-Encoding: chunked Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection #0 to host localhost left intact Closing connection #0 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Customer><id>123</id><name>John</name></Customer> Comments Comment by dushan abeyruwan [ 11/Nov/13 ] This is not a bug since BE returns the application/octet-stream, if customer specifically defines Accept in incoming headers then obviously the ESB sends back the Content-Type define under Accept heders Generated at Tue Feb 09 20:35:16 IST 2016 using JIRA 6.0.1#6096sha1:e4a48bd73c6b8a4d99c824976ce5808b4c85857d.