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Changes in working with Amazon S3 from version 1 to version 2 - AWS SDK for Java 2.x

Changes in working with Amazon S3 from version 1 to version 2

Multipart upload implementation

The default Content-Type header value for the method that the SDK uses to begin a multipart upload differs as shown in the following table.

SDK version Method Default Content-Type value
version 1 initiateMultipartUpload application/octet-stream
version 2 createMultipartUpload binary/octet-stream
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