How to return the correct content-type for JSON in CakePHP?

Question

I\'m trying to set the content-type header for a JSON response accessed with an AJAX GET request. I\'ve followed tutorials on blogs and the bakery but I always receive \'text/ht

Answer 1

I've been having the same problem as the original poster, and what worked for me was to follow Rob Wilkerson's advice, but also make sure I was using

jQuery.ajax()

instead of

jQuery.get()

or

jQuery.post()

jQuery.ajax() allows you to set the dataType to 'json' whereas the other two don't seem to allow you to set the datatype at all. When I set the data type in the AJAX request to 'json' it all worked as it should.