jquery ajax call return JSON parsing error

Question

I am using jquery to call an ajax wcf method that returns a list of objects as a JSON string. The JSON string looks like this when inspecting it in fiddler2 (in TextView):

Answer 1

Here, "application/json" is not a valid value for the dataType property. I changed it to "json" in my project and the same problem was solved.

Please check details here (comment #7): http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8216