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Asked: 2026-06-07T07:33:35+00:00

I have a web service that returns JSON responses when successful. Unfortunately, when I

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I have a web service that returns JSON responses when successful. Unfortunately, when I try to test this service via multi-mechanize, I get an error – “not viewing HTML”. Obviously it’s not viewing HTML, it’s getting content clearly marked as JSON. How do I get mechanize to ignore this error and accept the JSON it’s getitng back?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out mechanize isn’t set up to accept JSON responses out of the box. For a quick and dirty solution to this, update mechanize’s _headersutil.py file (check /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mechanize).

    In the is_html() method, change the line:

    html_types = ["text/html"]

    to read:

    html_types = ["text/html", "application/json"]
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