I have an IIS7.5 box running an asp.net mvc 3 application. The application receives binary POST requests and returns a binary answer. To distinguish this binary data from all other packets I setup my own mime-type (let's call it application/my.binary.data) that I use together with the Content-Type header.
The IIS-server does not seem to like my own mime-type and rejects the packet with a 400 Bad Request. If I change the mime-type to application/octet-stream it gets through IIS and I get an answer from my application.
How do I set IIS to allow my own mime-type for requests?
Request packet
POST http://my.local.domain/Page HTTP/1.1
Host: my.local.domain
Content-Length: 33
Content-Type: application/my.binary.data
Cache-Control: no-cache
..............p.00000000000000...
Response packet:
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 3.0
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:11:27 GMT
Content-Length: 11
Bad Request