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#14533 closed bug (duplicate)
Opened November 12, 2013 10:52PM UTC
Closed November 12, 2013 11:01PM UTC
Content-Type of application/json with Content-Length: 0 causes jQuery to fail the request
| Reported by: | aaron.l.france@gmail.com | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | undecided | Milestone: | None |
| Component: | unfiled | Version: | 2.1.0-beta1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Content-Type of application/json with Content-Length: 0 causes jQuery to fail the request.
The reasoning is that the empty string is not valid JSON. Whilst, technically correct (the best kind of correct!), jQuery shouldn't really fail in such a non-intuitive way.
The Content-Type should be used as a 'best try first' parsing for the response. If the response says "application/banana" by all means, try to parse it as a banana, but if it's a peach, then surely we should be able to continue?
After all, a remote server shouldn't be able to crash our application (barring application programmer error).
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Changed November 12, 2013 11:01PM UTC by comment:1
| resolution: | → duplicate |
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| status: | new → closed |
Duplicate of #13756.Certainly a remote server could "crash" your application by returning invalid json, such as
{bador an empty string. If you don't trust the server, declare an explicitdataType: textand parse it yourself, then handle (or ignore) the error.