According to RFC 4617 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt), "The MIME media type for JSON text is application/json."
Community seems to agree: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477816/the-right-json-content-type However, in 'generic.json' Content-Type is set to 'text/json' >> response.headers['Content-Type']='text/json' Is there any reason for the type to be set as 'text'? Is there any wide-spread client framework that requires 'text/json' content-type? If not, shouldn't it be modified to stick to standard? (one of the reasons I ask is because JSONView, a FF addon, will apparently only work for 'application/json' responses; and this is nice to have when developing with lots of AJAX....)