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API Requests return text/html when they should return application/json

Sterling Hamilton

03 Aug, 2011 05:04 PM via web

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Documentation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON

The MIME type for JSON text is "application/json"

Here's an example call to your application.

$ curl -i "http://mode.mofuse.com/api/ver1/?u=Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:59:14 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12 with Suhosin-Patch

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12

Content-Length: 369

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/html

{"device":{"type":"desktop","brand":"generic web browser","model":"","os":"","os_version":""},"display":{"width":800,"height":600,"max_image_width":600,"dual_orientation":false},"video":{"mp4":false,"mov":false,"wmv":false,"flv":null,"3gp":null},"function":{"click_to_call":"tel:","click_to_sms":"none"},"javascript":true,"api":{"version":"1.0","total_time":"0.0233s"}}

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Notice yours is:
Content-Type: text/html

It should be:
Content-Type: application/json

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Browsers interpret it differently. Pretty cut and dry and a small change in my opinion.

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Aaron Ball on 03 Aug, 2011 09:45 PM

   

   Yes, this does sound like a quick and correct change. I have added the above request as well as your request for jsonp to our feature/bug tracking system. These should be updated soon.

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2. Aaron Ball closed this discussion on 03 Aug, 2011 09:45 PM.

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