How to return raw string with ApiController?

Question

I have an ApiController that serves XML/JSON, but I would like one of my actions to return pure HTML. I tried the below but it still return XML/JSON.

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Answer 1

Another possible solution. In Web API 2 I used the base.Content() method of APIController:

    public IHttpActionResult Post()
    {
        return base.Content(HttpStatusCode.OK, new {} , new JsonMediaTypeFormatter(), "text/plain");
    }

I needed to do this to get around an IE9 bug where it kept trying to download JSON content. This should also work for XML-type data by using the XmlMediaTypeFormatter media formatter.

Hope that helps someone.