Well, the easy answer is just send JSON in both cases, with the HTML
as part of the JSON response. $.ajax returns the XMLHttpRequest that
it creates, so you could get the content type in your success function
and eval the JSON yourself:
var xhr = $.ajax({ ...
success: function(data){
console.log( xhr.getAllResponseHeaders() );
console.log( xhr.getResponseHeader('Content-type') );
}
});
On Aug 5, 7:53 am, moltar <roman.filip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a scenario. I am submitting a form via AJAX. The form may
> either return HTML (when there are input errors) or JSON (successful
> response). If during request I specify "dataType: 'json'" then HTML
> doesn't get thru correctly, if I don't then JSON is displayed as plain
> text.
>
> I am sending the "application/json" header back correctly. I don't
> understand why doesn't jQuery just pick that up and parse it as JSON?
> Is there an option? Is there something I can do to make this work?
>
> Thank you!
