How do I set the correct json headers?
Is there a way in htaccess to ensure the headers for my json are correct?
Update: Does anyone see anything wrong with these headers for json?
Date Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:31:11 GMT
Server Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Phusion_Passenger/2.2.15 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
X-Powered-By PHP/5.2.13
X-Pingback http://brettbarros.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
Content-Disposition attachment; filename="json_api.json"
Vary Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding gzip
Content-Length 719
Keep-Alive timeout=5, max=98
Connection Keep-Alive
Content-Type application/json; charset=UTF-8
Specifically, it's working with jquery's getJSON in ie8, ffx, chrome, but not ie7 or ie6...
Answer
AddType application/json .json
is a simple way to make all your *.json files being sent with the correct mime type. That, of course, doesn't work, if you create them dynamically in something like a, say, PHP script. In that case, you can add the info inside the script:
<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json');
// ...