Remove charset from Rails content type

Question

I have a old-stupid service making request to my app that fails when the Content-Type include the charset line

Content-Type    text/html; charset=utf-8
         


        

Answer 1

The only way I was able to get it to work is by setting the default charset

ActionController::Base.default_charset = nil

Also, setting the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to binary will turn off the charset.