Why does file uploaded to S3 have content type application/octet-stream unless i name the file .html

Question

Even though I set content type to text/html it ends up as application/octet-stream on S3.

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Answer 1

Because you have to set content type at the end just before sending, using the putObject method;

        ObjectMetadata md = new ObjectMetadata();

        InputStream myInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bFile); 
        md.setContentLength(bFile.length);
        md.setContentType("text/html");
        md.setContentEncoding("UTF-8");

        s3client.putObject(new PutObjectRequest(bucketName, keyName, myInputStream, md));

And after upload, content type is set as "text/html"

Here is a working dummy code, check that out, I've just tried and it's working;

public class TestAWS {

    //TEST
    private static String bucketName = "whateverBucket";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        BasicAWSCredentials awsCreds = new BasicAWSCredentials("whatever", "whatever");

        AmazonS3 s3client = new AmazonS3Client(awsCreds);
        try
        {
            String uploadFileName = "D:\\try.txt";
            String keyName = "newFile.txt";

            System.out.println("Uploading a new object to S3 from a file\n");
            File file = new File(uploadFileName);

            //bFile will be the placeholder of file bytes
            byte[] bFile = new byte[(int) file.length()];
            FileInputStream fileInputStream=null;

            //convert file into array of bytes  
            fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
            fileInputStream.read(bFile);
            fileInputStream.close();

            ObjectMetadata md = new ObjectMetadata();

            InputStream myInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bFile); 
            md.setContentLength(bFile.length);
            md.setContentType("text/html");
            md.setContentEncoding("UTF-8");

            s3client.putObject(new PutObjectRequest(bucketName, keyName, myInputStream, md));
        } catch (AmazonServiceException ase)
        {
            System.out.println("Caught an AmazonServiceException, which "
                    + "means your request made it "
                    + "to Amazon S3, but was rejected with an error response"
                    + " for some reason.");
            System.out.println("Error Message:    " + ase.getMessage());
            System.out.println("HTTP Status Code: " + ase.getStatusCode());
            System.out.println("AWS Error Code:   " + ase.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println("Error Type:       " + ase.getErrorType());
            System.out.println("Request ID:       " + ase.getRequestId());
        } catch (AmazonClientException ace)
        {
            System.out.println("Caught an AmazonClientException, which "
                    + "means the client encountered "
                    + "an internal error while trying to "
                    + "communicate with S3, "
                    + "such as not being able to access the network.");
            System.out.println("Error Message: " + ace.getMessage());
        }

    }

}

Hope that it helps.