diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 48dcac90f..c97bb56e5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,19 +8,25 @@ Development
 
 Version 0.8
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
+- New: ``JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES`` or supported JSON content types. Useful
+  when you need support for vendor-specific json types. Please note: responses
+  will still carry the standard ``application/json`` type. Defaults to
+  ``['application/json']``. Closes #1024.
 - New: ``ALLOW_CUSTOM_FIELDS_IN_GEOJSON`` allows custom fields in GeoJSON
   (Martin Fous).
 - New: Support for ``Feature`` and ``FeatureCollection`` GeoJSON objects.
   Closes #769 (Martin Fous). 
 - Config options ``MONGO_AUTH_MECHANISM`` and
   ``MONGO_AUTH_MECHANISM_PROPERTIES`` added.
-- Change: Support for Cerberus 1.0+. Closes #776 (Dominik Kellner, Brad P. Crochet).
+- Change: Support for Cerberus 1.0+. Closes #776 (Dominik Kellner, Brad P.
+  Crochet).
 - Change: Drop Flask-PyMongo dependency. Closes #855 (Artem Kolesnikov).
 - Docs: code snippets are now Python 3 compatibile (Pahaz Blinov).
 - Dev: after the latest update (May 4th) travis-ci would not run tests on
   Python 2.6. 
 - Dev: all branches are now tested on travis-ci. Previously, only 'master' was
   being tested.
+- Dev: fix insidious bug in ``tests.methods.post.TestPost`` class.
 - Update: Upgrade Events dependency to v0.3.
 
 Breaking Changes
diff --git a/docs/config.rst b/docs/config.rst
index dda24d0e2..068a51ab8 100644
--- a/docs/config.rst
+++ b/docs/config.rst
@@ -487,6 +487,12 @@ uppercase.
 ``JSON_SORT_KEYS``                  ``True`` to enable JSON key sorting, ``False``
                                     otherwise. Defaults to ``False``.
 
+``JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES``      Supported JSON content types. Useful when 
+                                    you need support for vendor-specific json
+                                    types. Please note: responses will still
+                                    carry the standard ``application/json``
+                                    type. Defaults to ``['application/json']``. 
+
 ``VALIDATION_ERROR_STATUS``         The HTTP status code to use for validation errors.
                                     Defaults to ``422``.
 
diff --git a/eve/default_settings.py b/eve/default_settings.py
index 732fc638b..4e4cb68d7 100644
--- a/eve/default_settings.py
+++ b/eve/default_settings.py
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@
 MULTIPART_FORM_FIELDS_AS_JSON = False
 AUTO_COLLAPSE_MULTI_KEYS = False
 AUTO_CREATE_LISTS = False
+JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES = ['application/json']
 
 SCHEMA_ENDPOINT = None
 
diff --git a/eve/methods/common.py b/eve/methods/common.py
index d816a5b6c..43006600d 100644
--- a/eve/methods/common.py
+++ b/eve/methods/common.py
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ def payload():
     """
     content_type = request.headers.get('Content-Type', '').split(';')[0]
 
-    if content_type == 'application/json':
-        return request.get_json()
+    if content_type in config.JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES:
+        return request.get_json(force=True)
     elif content_type == 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded':
         return multidict_to_dict(request.form) if len(request.form) else \
             abort(400, description='No form-urlencoded data supplied')
diff --git a/eve/render.py b/eve/render.py
index 3e3b2f8d6..aea46317e 100644
--- a/eve/render.py
+++ b/eve/render.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-)
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 """
     eve.render
diff --git a/eve/tests/config.py b/eve/tests/config.py
index d02a41991..181269632 100644
--- a/eve/tests/config.py
+++ b/eve/tests/config.py
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ def test_default_settings(self):
         self.assertEqual(self.app.config['STANDARD_ERRORS'],
                          [400, 401, 404, 405, 406, 409, 410, 412, 422, 428])
         self.assertEqual(self.app.config['UPSERT_ON_PUT'], True)
+        self.assertEqual(self.app.config['JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES'],
+                         ['application/json'])
 
     def test_settings_as_dict(self):
         my_settings = {'API_VERSION': 'override!', 'DOMAIN': {'contacts': {}}}
diff --git a/eve/tests/methods/post.py b/eve/tests/methods/post.py
index a05fb3dc3..feb02a0ef 100644
--- a/eve/tests/methods/post.py
+++ b/eve/tests/methods/post.py
@@ -875,6 +875,18 @@ def test_post_location_header_hateoas_off(self):
         self.assertTrue('Location' in r.headers)
         self.assertTrue(self.known_resource_url in r.headers['Location'])
 
+    def test_post_custom_json_content_type(self):
+        data = {'ref': '1234567890123456789054321'}
+        r, status = self.post(self.known_resource_url, data,
+                              content_type='application/csp-report')
+        self.assert400(status)
+
+        self.app.config['JSON_REQUEST_CONTENT_TYPES'] += \
+            ['application/csp-report']
+        r, status = self.post(self.known_resource_url, data,
+                              content_type='application/csp-report')
+        self.assert201(status)
+
     def perform_post(self, data, valid_items=[0]):
         r, status = self.post(self.known_resource_url, data=data)
         self.assert201(status)
@@ -924,7 +936,9 @@ def compare_post_with_get(self, item_id, fields):
         else:
             return item[fields]
 
-    def post(self, url, data, headers=[], content_type='application/json'):
+    def post(self, url, data, headers=None, content_type='application/json'):
+        if not headers:
+            headers=[]
         headers.append(('Content-Type', content_type))
         r = self.test_client.post(url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)
         return self.parse_response(r)