Question

I’m POSTing some data to an IIS server which replies with an simple id (here 1692945):

Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:08:37 GMT
Content-Length: 7

1692945

The text content type seems to confuse Jsoup which throws an:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Unhandled content type "null" on URL http://domain.com/svr_listing.aspx. Must be text/*, application/xml, or application/xhtml+xml

Is there a way to specify that the response must be trated as text/plain? Is this a jsoup bug?

Thanks,

Nicolas

Answer 1

jsoup checks the response type by default, to protect you from accidently trying to parse images and PDFs etc as HTML. Because it doesn’t recognise text as a valid HTML content-type, it is throwing an exception.

You can force jsoup to ignore the content-type and parse the response as HTML with the Connection.ignoreContentType() method.

E.g.

Document doc = Jsoup.connect(url).ignoreContentType(true).get(); // or .post();