diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/server/http/HttpServer2.java b/hadoop-hdds/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/server/http/HttpServer2.java
index 649bacbbfccb..f27f42e0b4c7 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/server/http/HttpServer2.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdds/server/http/HttpServer2.java
@@ -1673,8 +1673,7 @@ private String inferMimeType(ServletRequest request) {
       String path = ((HttpServletRequest) request).getRequestURI();
       ServletContextHandler.Context sContext =
           (ServletContextHandler.Context) config.getServletContext();
-      String mime = sContext.getMimeType(path);
-      return (mime == null) ? null : mime;
+      return sContext.getMimeType(path);
     }
 
     private void initHttpHeaderMap() {