I've did some testing with the latest versions: Firefox and Opera
download, Chrome and Safari display.
Setting web.header("Content-Type", "text/plain") makes them all
display.
On Aug 18, 8:17 pm, Branko Vukelić <bg.bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011-08-18 05:12 -0700, andrei wrote:
>
> > What headers are set?
> > In my app to return json I do this:
>
> > web.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
> > return json.dumps(result)
>
> AFAIK, if you set content type to proper JSON content type, the browser
> _will_ download the JSON response instead of dumping it into the window.
> To make it dump into the window, I think it's best to first check the
> _request_ header, and make sure it's not an XHR response, and then set
> the response Content-Type header to 'text/plain'. In case of XHR, you
> can leave it as 'application/json'.
>
> The incoming header to check is 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH', which should be
> set to 'XMLHttpRequest'. You set the response content-type to text/plain
> if the header is either missing or set to something else than
> 'XMLHttpRequest'. I forgot the exact API for getting the headers, but
> I'm sure you already know how to get them.
>
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