Make minio work with curl and browsers again

pkg/api/api_generic_handlers.go

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ func (h timeHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		return
 	}
 	// Verify if date headers are set, if not reject the request
+
+	if r.Header.Get("Authorization") != "" {
 		if r.Header.Get("x-amz-date") == "" && r.Header.Get("Date") == "" {
 			// there is no way to knowing if this is a valid request, could be a attack reject such clients
 			writeErrorResponse(w, r, RequestTimeTooSkewed, acceptsContentType, r.URL.Path)
@@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ func (h timeHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			writeErrorResponse(w, r, RequestTimeTooSkewed, acceptsContentType, r.URL.Path)
 			return
 		}
+	}
 	h.handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 }
 

pkg/api/contenttype.go

@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@ func getContentType(req *http.Request) contentType {
 	switch {
 	case acceptHeader == "application/json":
 		return jsonContentType
-	case acceptHeader == "application/xml":
-		return xmlContentType
-	case acceptHeader == "*/*":
-		return xmlContentType
-	case acceptHeader != "":
-		return unknownContentType
 	default:
 		return xmlContentType
 	}