return text/html content-type when using flask-restful
In a specific case I'd like to respond with a text/html content-type for an error as follows: class MyResource(Resource): def get(self): if some_condition: return 'bad argument', 400 The code above returns an application/json content-type: '"bad argument"' instead of a text/html content-type: 'bad argument' How can I force flask-restful to respond with text/html content-type? You'll have to use flask.make_response() to return a 'pre-baked' response object: return flask.make_response('bad argument', 400) Flask-Restful will pass full-on Response objects unaltered, rather than try and convert