diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 32582b6d872..56c23102f32 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-2590. Fix the missing links in the WebHDFS forrest doc.  (szetszwo)
 
     HDFS-2596. TestDirectoryScanner doesn't test parallel scans. (eli)
+
+    HDFS-2606. webhdfs client filesystem impl must set the content-type
+    header for create/append. (tucu)
     
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
index d10e70888ec..7b7f20b12d8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ private HttpURLConnection httpConnect(final HttpOpParam.Op op, final Path fspath
       conn.setRequestMethod(op.getType().toString());
       if (op.getDoOutput()) {
         conn = twoStepWrite(conn, op);
+        conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
       }
       conn.setDoOutput(op.getDoOutput());
       conn.connect();