id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blocking	blockedby
2733	jQuery.ajax should auto-parse response based on Content-Type, if dataType is not specified	jelly-bean		"i have a feature request that when jQuery.ajax({ dataType: is not specified, that instead of only determining whether to returnStatus or returnText or whatever--that it actually looks at the server's reply in the Content-Type header, and uses that instead to parse XML (text/xml), JSON (application/json), JavaScript (text/javascript), Plain-Text/error (e.g. anything else), etc.

this is because often times i will change the content-type based on the response--i like to send errors in plain text because they trigger a parser error which will fire the jQuery.ajax.error(), while any type of SGML seems to work best passed in XML wrapped as CDATA because it requires less escaped characters vs. JSON which is best for any type of objects or data response, and of course JavaScript for letting the server generate the .js and have the script execute whatever it receives."	feature	closed	major	1.3	ajax	1.2.3	fixed		jelly-bean