diff --git a/src/main/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClient.scala b/src/main/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClient.scala
index e11be45..cad7d61 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClient.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClient.scala
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ class AsyncSolrClient[F[_]] protected (private[solrs] val loadBalancer: LoadBala
 
   @throws[RemoteSolrException]
   private def validateResponse(response: Response, responseParser: ResponseParser)(implicit server: SolrServer): Unit = {
-    validateMimeType(responseParser.getContentType, response)
+    validateMimeType(responseParser.getContentTypes.asScala, response)
 
     val httpStatus = response.getStatusCode
     if(httpStatus >= 400) {
@@ -731,30 +731,33 @@ class AsyncSolrClient[F[_]] protected (private[solrs] val loadBalancer: LoadBala
   }
 
   @throws[RemoteSolrException]
-  protected def validateMimeType(expectedContentType: String, response: Response): Unit = {
-    if (expectedContentType != null) {
-      val expectedMimeType = getMimeType(expectedContentType).map(_.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)).getOrElse("")
-      val actualMimeType = getMimeType(response.getContentType).map(_.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)).getOrElse("")
-      if (expectedMimeType != actualMimeType) {
-        var msg = s"Expected mime type [$expectedMimeType] but got [$actualMimeType]."
-        var encoding: String = getResponseEncoding(response)
-        try {
-          // might be solved with responseParser.processResponse (like it's done for 4xx codes)
-          msg = msg + "\n" + IOUtils.toString(response.getResponseBodyAsStream, encoding)
-        }
-        catch {
-          case e: IOException =>
-            metrics.countRemoteException
-            throw new RemoteSolrException(response.getStatusCode, s"$msg Unfortunately could not parse response (for debugging) with encoding $encoding", e)
-        }
-        metrics.countRemoteException
-        throw new RemoteSolrException(response.getStatusCode, msg, null)
+  protected def validateMimeType(supportedContentTypes: Iterable[String], response: Response): Unit = {
+    val actualMimeType = getMimeType(response.getContentType).map(_.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)).getOrElse("")
+    val matchingMimeType = supportedContentTypes.find { supportedContentType =>
+        val expectedMimeType = getMimeType(supportedContentType).map(_.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)).getOrElse("")
+        expectedMimeType == actualMimeType
+    }
+
+    if (matchingMimeType.isEmpty) {
+      var msg = s"Expected a mime type of [${supportedContentTypes.mkString(", ")}] but got [$actualMimeType]."
+      val encoding: String = getResponseEncoding(response)
+      try {
+        // might be solved with responseParser.processResponse (like it's done for 4xx codes)
+        msg = msg + "\n" + IOUtils.toString(response.getResponseBodyAsStream, encoding)
+      }
+      catch {
+        case e: IOException =>
+          metrics.countRemoteException
+          throw new RemoteSolrException(response.getStatusCode, s"$msg Unfortunately could not parse response (for debugging) with encoding $encoding", e)
       }
+      metrics.countRemoteException
+      throw new RemoteSolrException(response.getStatusCode, msg, null)
+
     }
   }
 
   protected def getResponseEncoding(response: Response): String = {
-    var encoding = response.getHeader("Content-Encoding")
+    val encoding = response.getHeader("Content-Encoding")
     if (encoding == null) "UTF-8" else encoding
   }
 
diff --git a/src/test/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec.scala b/src/test/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec.scala
index 326717b..cf281c2 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/io/ino/solrs/AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec.scala
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ import org.asynchttpclient.DefaultAsyncHttpClient
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrQuery
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrRequest
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.SolrResponse
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.BinaryResponseParser
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.BinaryResponseParser.BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.BinaryResponseParser.BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE_V2
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.{NoOpResponseParser, XMLResponseParser}
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.request.{GenericSolrRequest, QueryRequest}
 import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.response.QueryResponse
-import org.mockito.ArgumentMatcher._
 import org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.anyLong
 import org.mockito.Mockito.verify
 import org.scalatest.concurrent.Eventually._
@@ -18,6 +20,7 @@ import org.scalatest.concurrent.PatienceConfiguration.Timeout
 import org.scalatest.time.Millis
 import org.scalatest.time.Span
 
+import java.util
 import scala.annotation.tailrec
 import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
 import scala.concurrent.Future
@@ -123,7 +126,9 @@ class AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec extends StandardFunSpec with RunningSolr {
       null,
         new SolrQuery("cat:cat1").add("wt", "xml")
       )
-      request.setResponseParser(new NoOpResponseParser)
+      request.setResponseParser(new NoOpResponseParser {
+        override def getContentTypes: util.Collection[String] = asList("application/xml")
+      })
 
       val response = solr.execute(request)
 
@@ -151,7 +156,9 @@ class AsyncSolrClientIntegrationSpec extends StandardFunSpec with RunningSolr {
       awaitReady(response)
       a [RemoteSolrException] should be thrownBy await(response)
       // embedded Jetty returns 404 with text/html response with error message in body
-      (the [RemoteSolrException] thrownBy await(response)).getMessage should include ("Expected mime type [] but got [text/html]")
+      val mimeTypesRegex = s"($BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE, $BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE_V2|$BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE_V2, $BINARY_CONTENT_TYPE)"
+      (the [RemoteSolrException] thrownBy await(response)).getMessage should include regex "Expected a mime type of " +
+        s"\\[$mimeTypesRegex\\] but got \\[text/html\\]"
 
       solr.shutdown()
     }