If you cannot get your server to pass appropriate headers, set the evalJSON option to 'force', like so:
new Ajax.Request(url, { evalJSON: 'force', ... }); Best, Tobie On Apr 15, 12:00 am, broberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot find any reference to 'defaultchartype' in my config file. > However, the Apache config starts out with a number of AddType > declarations that look promising... > > AddType text/plain .java > AddType text/xml .xml > AddType text/x-hdml .hdml > AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml > AddType image/gif .gif > AddType text/html .htm > AddType text/html .html > AddType text/x-component .htc > > Maybe I need to add... > > AddType application/json .js > > Let me know what you think. I'm going to research it a little more > before I make changes the Web server's configuration. > > On Apr 14, 4:53 pm, "Brian Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---