Thank you kindly, TLaukkan for a patch that:

Added support for loading bare asset binaries (as opposed to 
xml encoded asset base) to both sandbox asset service and cable beach.
* Added support for enabling region asset service when mxp is enabled.
* Moved base http server content type defaulting before invocation of 
request handle method to allow for variable content type in the response.

OpenSim/Framework/Servers/BaseHttpServer.cs

@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
                     //m_log.Debug("[BASE HTTP SERVER]: Found Stream Handler");
                     // Okay, so this is bad, but should be considered temporary until everything is IStreamHandler.
                     byte[] buffer;
+
+                    response.ContentType = requestHandler.ContentType; // Lets do this defaulting before in case handler has varying content type.
+
                     if (requestHandler is IStreamedRequestHandler)
                     {
                         IStreamedRequestHandler streamedRequestHandler = requestHandler as IStreamedRequestHandler;
@@ -371,7 +374,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
                     }
 
                     request.InputStream.Close();
-                    response.ContentType = requestHandler.ContentType;
+                    
                     if (!response.SendChunked)
                         response.ContentLength64 = buffer.LongLength;
 

OpenSim/Framework/Servers/GetAssetStreamHandler.cs

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ using OpenSim.Data;
 using OpenSim.Framework;
 using OpenSim.Framework.Servers;
 using OpenSim.Framework.Statistics;
+using System.Net;
 
 namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
 {
@@ -90,7 +91,14 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
 //                    {                       
 //                        asset.Data = ProcessOutgoingAssetData(asset.Data);
 //                    }
-
+                    if (p.Length > 1 && p[1] == "data")
+                    {
+                        httpResponse.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;
+                        httpResponse.ContentType = SLAssetTypeToContentType(asset.Type);
+                        result = asset.Data;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
                         XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AssetBase));
                         MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
                         XmlTextWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8);
@@ -105,6 +113,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
 
                         Array.Resize<byte>(ref result, (int)ms.Length);
                     }
+                }
                 else
                 {
                     if (StatsManager.AssetStats != null)
@@ -161,5 +170,47 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers
             return data;
         }
 
+        private string SLAssetTypeToContentType(int assetType)
+        {
+            switch (assetType)
+            {
+                case 0:
+                    return "image/jp2";
+                case 1:
+                    return "application/ogg";
+                case 2:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-callingcard";
+                case 3:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-landmark";
+                case 5:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-clothing";
+                case 6:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-primitive";
+                case 7:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-notecard";
+                case 8:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-folder";
+                case 10:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-lsl";
+                case 11:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-lso";
+                case 12:
+                    return "image/tga";
+                case 13:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-bodypart";
+                case 17:
+                    return "audio/x-wav";
+                case 19:
+                    return "image/jpeg";
+                case 20:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-animation";
+                case 21:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-gesture";
+                case 22:
+                    return "application/x-metaverse-simstate";
+                default:
+                    return "application/octet-stream";
+            }
+        }
     }
 }

OpenSim/Grid/AssetInventoryServer/Plugins/OpenSim/OpenSimAssetFrontendPlugin.cs

@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ namespace OpenSim.Grid.AssetInventoryServer.Plugins.OpenSim
 
                     AssetBase asset = new AssetBase();
                     if ((dataResponse = m_server.StorageProvider.TryFetchDataMetadata(assetID, out asset)) == BackendResponse.Success)
+                    {
+                        if (rawUrl.Length >= 4 && rawUrl[3] == "data")
+                        {
+                            httpResponse.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;
+                            httpResponse.ContentType = Utils.SLAssetTypeToContentType(asset.Type);
+                            buffer=asset.Data;
+                        }
+                        else
                         {
                             XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AssetBase));
                             MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
@@ -125,6 +133,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Grid.AssetInventoryServer.Plugins.OpenSim
                             ms.Close();
                             httpResponse.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;
                         }
+                    }
                     else
                     {
                         m_log.WarnFormat("[OPENSIMASSETFRONTEND]: Failed to fetch asset data or metadata for {0}: {1}", assetID, dataResponse);

OpenSim/Region/CoreModules/Framework/Services/RegionAssetService.cs

@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Region.CoreModules.Framework.Services
                 m_scene = scene;
 
                 // This module is only on for standalones in hypergrid mode
-                enabled = !config.Configs["Startup"].GetBoolean("gridmode", true) && config.Configs["Startup"].GetBoolean("hypergrid", false);
+                enabled = (!config.Configs["Startup"].GetBoolean("gridmode", true)) && 
+                    (config.Configs["Startup"].GetBoolean("hypergrid", true)||
+                    config.Configs["MXP"].GetBoolean("Enabled", true));
             }
         }