My .net MVC action is going to respond to ajax requests (jquery).
Do I (or should I) set the document type of my header?
I will be responding with either just html/plain text or maybe even JSON.
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My .net MVC action is going to respond to ajax requests (jquery).
Do I (or should I) set the document type of my header?
I will be responding with either just html/plain text or maybe even JSON.
If it’s responding with html/plain text use:
If it’s responding with JSON use:
It is good practice to do so, although it really depends on what you’re doing with the responded data.
Sometimes JavaScript frameworks will automatically work the response depending on the Header. For example PrototypeJs automatically
sanitizesandevals the response if it has ‘application/json‘ header.