Setting correct content type for images

Questions / Help
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I’ve uploaded several SVGs into the service,
however when getting them - for example;

wget --server-response https://ucarecdn.com/c9b7e84c-2f15-4b84-b1bd-5183c213a9bd/img.svg

content type is set wrong;
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

I’m unable to modify this when uploading files.

wrong content type prohibits the use of these svgs in html…

Any solution?
Thanks!

2

Hi @eyal,

How did you upload this file? I have downloaded and re-uploaded it via the widget, and I can see its content-type is image/svg+xml.

https://ucarecdn.com/45b259a5-377c-4fd5-855e-0a8baef88ccb/img.svg

3

I used the upload API, directly via curl and indirectly using the pyuploadcare

4

@eyal Thanks for the details. I need some time to check things and find out why this happens. Will be in touch soon.

5

@eyal for uploaded files, we set content type provided by the client you use for uploading. If no content type provided, we set the default content type - application/octet-stream

If you’re using pyuploadcare for uploads, you can specify content type when open a file and then pass it to the File.upload() method. It takes a file in the same way as requests so you can specify content type like this:

file = {'file': ('img.svg', open('img.svg', 'rb'), 'image/svg+xml')}
File.upload(file)

In case of using CURL, you can specify content type along with the file name:

curl -F "UPLOADCARE_PUB_KEY=demopublickey" -F "UPLOADCARE_STORE=1" -F "file=@img.svg;type=image/svg+xml" "https://upload.uploadcare.com/base/"

Hope that helps.

6

Perfect, thanks for your help @Alex.
That’s what I was missing.
I suggest you add this to the docs, since this bit pushed back the integration with you and made us switch to another service…

7

@eyal I’m sorry the lack of information on that matter caused difficulties with your integration. We’ll take this into account and will reflect this in our docs and help articles.