From afb034292423840ae041d69a4c659e3cf4d0b86e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:44:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Accept empty Content-Type header

Issue: SPR-12173
(cherry picked from commit 70412a9)
---
 .../src/main/java/org/springframework/http/HttpHeaders.java     | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/HttpHeaders.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/HttpHeaders.java
index c142e1b54ff..5b8ee6a5c95 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/HttpHeaders.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/HttpHeaders.java
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ public class HttpHeaders implements MultiValueMap<String, String>, Serializable
 	 */
 	public MediaType getContentType() {
 		String value = getFirst(CONTENT_TYPE);
-		return (value != null ? MediaType.parseMediaType(value) : null);
+		return (StringUtils.hasLength(value) ? MediaType.parseMediaType(value) : null);
 	}
 
 	/**