Hi, Firstly, let me apologize if this has been discussed before. I have searched the group and couldn't find anything on the subject.
Now, to my question. Am I correct to assume that the jQuery.ajax function pays no heed to the Content-Type response header it receives from the server? If so, can I ask why? For instance, if the server sends 'application/json', it is fairly safe to assume that the response will be in JSON format and should therefore be eval'd. I have a situation where I do not know beforehand, what type of data the server will return, and therefore cannot specify a dataType parameter. In this case, I would like jQuery to parse the response, if it receives a 'Content-Type' header of 'application/json', and only then. If the header received is 'text/html', the response should not be parsed. Is there a reason why the 'Content-Type' response header is being ignored, when the dataType parameter is not specified? Or is this not the case and I am missing something? Thanks!
