[jQuery] jQuery.get does not return proper JSON

[Maarten]

Hi,

I am using jQuery.get to make an AJAX request to the server which
should return a JSON object, but it is interpretated by jQuery as a
string, not an object.

Here is the javascript code I use:

$.get(this.href, function(data) {
  console.log(data);
  console.log(data.votes_for);
  console.log(typeof data);
}, "json");

And this is the PHP code on the server side.

echo header('Content-type: application/x-json');
echo '{"votes_for":7,"votes_against":4}';
die();

I do not use getJSON because I want to make one request which could
return in a JSON object, or just a string, depending on some
conditions.

Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Maarten