Return JSON from servlet

Question

It is a very basic request-response test. Browser sends \"hello from browser\" to servlet using jQuery $.ajax API, and servlet receives this message, then create a JSON obje

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. It was working well on Firefox but not on IE... I found out reading this post that my problem was related to the 'Content-Type'. The problem seems that that IE has problem with 'charset=UTF8'. However, if you use 'charset=UTF-8' (with a dash) it is then working! Your Content-Type should then be: application/json;charset=UTF-8