I don't see how that creates a problem though. Request doesn't check to see
what the headers the server responds with.

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Aaron. The problem isn't the request headers, or the server, but
> that the content-type is set to application/xml, when the content body is
> not XML.
>
>
> On 08/08/2011 18:25, Aaron Newton wrote:
>
>> As you can see, Request.JSON sets the Accept/X-Request headers itself,
>> manually (i.e. they are not options):
>>
>> https://github.com/mootools/**mootools-core/blob/master/**
>> Source/Request/Request.JSON.**js#L28<https://github.com/mootools/mootools-core/blob/master/Source/Request/Request.JSON.js#L28>
>>
>> But any other headers you wish to set may be specified in the options.
>>
>> Regardless, if your server responds with json data, even of the content
>> type is not application/json, the Request.JSON attempts to send that data
>> through JSON.decode and should work.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Lee <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>    No ideas?  Should I file a bug report?
>>
>>    On 04/08/2011 13:49, Lee wrote:
>>
>>        Thanks for your reply.
>>
>>        Accept header relate to that which the client is able, and
>>        prefers, to
>>        accept. The content-type header is used to describe the
>>        content of the
>>        media entity being transmitted. You can see its use most
>>        plainly in
>>        uploading images to a server.
>>
>>        My problem is that a JSON request is being sent with a
>>        content-type
>>        that describes an XML document, when no XML document is being
>>        sent. I
>>        would like to override this, and it is not possible.
>>
>>        I presume this originates with the HTTP XML Request object,
>>        but do not
>>        know Mootools core to address the issue, so I thought I'd post
>>        here.
>>
>>        Just to be clear, the problem has nothing to do with the
>>        server, which
>>        is correctly responding to JSON.Request's declaration that it
>>        has sent
>>        an HTTP request entity of with a media described by the
>>        content type
>>        header of 'application/xml'.
>>
>>        Thanks
>>        lee
>>
>>
>>        On Aug 4, 10:26 am, Arian Stolwijk<[email protected]
>>        <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>            Content-Type is to serve data, your server should check
>>            the Accept and
>>            X-Request headers. If that's application/json it should
>>            return a response
>>            with the Content-Type as application/json too.
>>
>>            In the Net tab of firebug or the Network tab of webkit
>>            inspector you can see
>>            the Request headers, which you set with the headers
>>            option, and the response
>>            headers, response content and more.
>>
>>            On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Lee<[email protected]
>>            <mailto:[email protected]>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>                Hello list,
>>                new Request.JSON({
>>                       url:            this.serverSideUri,
>>                       method: 'OPTIONS',
>>                       async:  true,
>>                       emulation:      false
>>                }).send();
>>                Firebug doesn't tell me anything about this request,
>>                only the
>>                response, which I am generating.
>>                Problem seems to be that my server (Apache 2) sees the
>>                request's
>>                content-type headers as application/xml.
>>                I have tried adding content-type headers to the
>>                request, to no avail -
>>                it would be good for me, at least, if any parameter I
>>                pass Request
>>                clases overrode those the class itself defines for the
>>                request.
>>                       // All ineffective:
>>                       headers:        {
>>                               'content-type' : 'application/json',
>>                               'contentType' : 'application/json',
>>                               'Content-Type' : 'application/json',
>>                       }
>>                Do you want me to post this somewhere else?
>>                Thanks
>>                Lee
>>
>>
>>

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