AJAX deferred should call success on "No Content," even when a Content-Type is specified

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When a Content-Type such as "text/xml" is specified in an HTTP 204 ("No Content") status, jquery finds a converter for the datastream in the ajaxConvert() function. This ends up calling parseXML, which creates an invalid XML document and jquery throws an error.

In a 204 No Content situation, jquery should not attempt to parse the empty document. Or, parseXML should return an empty document when passed an empty string.

[timmywil]

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[jaubourg]

Makes parseXML act like parseJSON when given an empty or non-string input: now returns null rather than throwing an exception. Incidently fixes #10527. Unit tests added.

Changeset: d30859eb6bd5af9aafa9db003e17835ff594d019

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It looks like this has been fixed in 1.7.2. For anyone trying to work around this in a previous version, I found that forcing the datatype to 'text' in an ajax query works.

[anonymous]

This is still broken in 1.7.2 when using 'jsonp' dataType.

[jaubourg]

Replying to anonymous:

This is still broken in 1.7.2 when using 'jsonp' dataType.

jsFiddle use-case please.