Apache on the ass/400 never really thunk of it... which version?
one thing you might want to check is the defaultchartype in the httpd.conf file or the server specific directives, thats the first thing i check when i have garbled output like that On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 5:45 PM, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, the code on your server works for me. Though I didn't seem to me > that it would make any difference, I had a quick thought that it might > be that I was using the GET method rather than the POST method. > However, changing the method had no effect. > > I'm using Firebug to inspect the DOM, GET/POST request, and the > response. When I get the response back, it's garbled. As long as I > specify the content-type as 'text/javascript' (and set the evalJSON > parm to 'force'), the responseJSON property is populated correctly. > However, when I set the content-type to 'application/json', the > response (i.e. responseText property) comes back garbled. It contains > non-printable characters. It's quite strange. Here's a copy & paste > of the response: > > �% ���������� [EMAIL PROTECTED] ������ z k% ������� z k% ������ z > k > % ���� z@ % �% > > We're running Apache on an IBM AS/400 machine, so our instance of > Apache might not like the 'application/json' content type. Have you > heard of this before? Can the Apache config file impact the content > types the Apache Web Server is willing to serve up? > > Thanks! > > On Apr 14, 4:12 pm, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > That works fine for me; see: > > > > http://beebo.org/scratch/test.html > > > > which Ajax.Requests: > > > > http://beebo.org/scratch/test.php > > > > --M. > > > > On Apr 14, 9:53 pm, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > { > > > "response": { > > > "status": "ok", > > > "purpose": "user", > > > "rtncod": "1234", > > > "body": "It worked" > > > } > > > > > } > > > > > On Apr 14, 3:13 pm, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 14, 6:35 pm, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > In Firefox 2.x and IE6 (the browsers I've tested in thus far), the > > > > > responseJSON property of the Ajax.Response object is null when I > set > > > > > the response content-type to "application/json". > > > > > > That should work. What's the exact JSON that's being returned from > > > > the server? If it's a string it needs to be quoted: > > > > > > "Hello, World!" > > > > > > --M. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
