diff --git a/src/init.c b/src/init.c
index 45f788f..92b9824 100644
--- a/src/init.c
+++ b/src/init.c
@@ -160,12 +160,6 @@ init_config( void )
       "Mozilla/5.0 (%s) Siege/%s", PLATFORM, version_string 
     );
 
-  if (strlen(my.conttype) < 1) 
-    snprintf( 
-      my.conttype, sizeof(my.conttype),
-      "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
-    );
-
   if (strlen(my.encoding) < 1)
     snprintf(
       my.encoding, sizeof(my.encoding), "*"
diff --git a/src/load.c b/src/load.c
index 506633d..d268751 100644
--- a/src/load.c
+++ b/src/load.c
@@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ load_file(URL U, char *file)
   fclose(fp); 
 
   if (len > 0) {
-    url_set_conttype(U, get_content_type(filename));
+    if (strlen(my.conttype) < 1) {
+      url_set_conttype(U, my.conttype);
+    } else {
+      url_set_conttype(U, get_content_type(filename));
+    }
     url_set_postdata(U, buf, len);
   }