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#5764 closed bug (wontfix)
Opened January 06, 2010 11:14PM UTC
Closed November 19, 2010 06:31AM UTC
AJAX requests for XML documents fail if the Content-Type is incorrect
| Reported by: | bgreenlee | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 1.4 |
| Component: | ajax | Version: | 1.3.2 |
| Keywords: | ajax xml content-type | Cc: | |
| Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
If an XML document is sent with the wrong Content-Type (e.g. "text/html"), jQuery will return a parsererror, even if the response body is valid XML. This issue was discovered via a Rails bug in which cached content (in our case, an XML document) is returned with a Content-Type of "text/html" rather than the original Content-Type. See https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/1585-action-caching-sets-wrong-content-type-when-cache_path-is-a-string
I have a patch at http://github.com/bgreenlee/jquery/commit/47eaedf87385dd66421ef9126fddc2aaa0303148
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Changed January 06, 2010 11:27PM UTC by comment:1
Changed November 19, 2010 06:31AM UTC by comment:2
| resolution: | → wontfix |
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| status: | new → closed |
Thanks for the report, but this is not a jQuery bug. If the server is failing to provide the proper Content-Type header for XML data as required by the XMLHttpRequest spec, it is not jQuery’s responsibility to try to process the input anyway.
Commit message updated to reference this ticket: http://github.com/bgreenlee/jquery/commit/88937d5d7aad72f32469841960e13d305c0d1d62