diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Http/ByteArrayContentHelper.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Http/ByteArrayContentHelper.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..44d15bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Http/ByteArrayContentHelper.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Net.Http.Headers;
+using JetBrains.Annotations;
+using WireMock.Validation;
+
+namespace WireMock.Http
+{
+    internal static class ByteArrayContentHelper
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Creates a ByteArrayContent object.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="content">The byte[] content (cannot be null)</param>
+        /// <param name="contentType">The ContentType (can be null)</param>
+        /// <returns>ByteArrayContent</returns>
+        internal static ByteArrayContent Create([NotNull] byte[] content, [CanBeNull] MediaTypeHeaderValue contentType)
+        {
+            Check.NotNull(content, nameof(content));
+
+            var byteContent = new ByteArrayContent(content);
+            if (contentType != null)
+            {
+                byteContent.Headers.Remove(HttpKnownHeaderNames.ContentType);
+                byteContent.Headers.ContentType = contentType;
+            }
+
+            return byteContent;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Http/HttpRequestMessageHelper.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Http/HttpRequestMessageHelper.cs
index ba86bead..2f2005d3 100644
--- a/src/WireMock.Net/Http/HttpRequestMessageHelper.cs
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Http/HttpRequestMessageHelper.cs
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-using JetBrains.Annotations;
-using Newtonsoft.Json;
-using System;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Net.Http;
 using System.Net.Http.Headers;
+using JetBrains.Annotations;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
 using WireMock.Types;
 using WireMock.Validation;
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ namespace WireMock.Http
             switch (requestMessage.BodyData?.DetectedBodyType)
             {
                 case BodyType.Bytes:
-                    httpRequestMessage.Content = new ByteArrayContent(requestMessage.BodyData.BodyAsBytes);
+                    httpRequestMessage.Content = ByteArrayContentHelper.Create(requestMessage.BodyData.BodyAsBytes, contentType);
                     break;
 
                 case BodyType.Json:
diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Owin/Mappers/OwinRequestMapper.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Owin/Mappers/OwinRequestMapper.cs
index 8871cde9..49f8b538 100644
--- a/src/WireMock.Net/Owin/Mappers/OwinRequestMapper.cs
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Owin/Mappers/OwinRequestMapper.cs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ namespace WireMock.Owin.Mappers
                     ContentEncoding = contentEncodingHeader?.FirstOrDefault(),
                     DecompressGZipAndDeflate = !options.DisableRequestBodyDecompressing.GetValueOrDefault(false)
                 };
+
                 body = await BodyParser.Parse(bodyParserSettings);
             }
 
diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Util/BodyParser.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Util/BodyParser.cs
index 826b399e..cd91c9c9 100644
--- a/src/WireMock.Net/Util/BodyParser.cs
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Util/BodyParser.cs
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ namespace WireMock.Util
                     data.Encoding = encoding;
                     data.DetectedBodyType = BodyType.String;
                 }
-
+   
                 return data;
             }
 
diff --git a/test/WireMock.Net.Tests/Http/ByteArrayContentHelperTests.cs b/test/WireMock.Net.Tests/Http/ByteArrayContentHelperTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2bb6169c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/WireMock.Net.Tests/Http/ByteArrayContentHelperTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+using System.Net.Http.Headers;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using FluentAssertions;
+using WireMock.Http;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace WireMock.Net.Tests.Http
+{
+    public class ByteArrayContentHelperTests
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task ByteArrayContentHelperTests_Create_WithNullContentType()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var content = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("test");
+
+            // Act
+            var result = ByteArrayContentHelper.Create(content, null);
+
+            // Assert
+            result.Headers.ContentType.Should().BeNull();
+            (await result.ReadAsByteArrayAsync()).Should().BeEquivalentTo(content);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("application/octet-stream", "application/octet-stream")]
+        [InlineData("application/soap+xml", "application/soap+xml")]
+        [InlineData("multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------x", "multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------x")]
+        public async Task ByteArrayContentHelperTests_Create(string test, string expected)
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var content = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("test");
+            var contentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse(test);
+
+            // Act
+            var result = ByteArrayContentHelper.Create(content, contentType);
+
+            // Assert
+            result.Headers.ContentType.ToString().Should().Be(expected);
+            (await result.ReadAsByteArrayAsync()).Should().BeEquivalentTo(content);
+        }
+    }
+}