IE tries to download json response while submitting jQuery multipart form data containing file

Question

I\'m trying to submit a form with a file field in it via jQuery.Form plugin, here\'s the code:

$(\'form\').ajaxSubmit({
  url: \"/path\",
  data         


        

Answer 1

I came up with the following workaround (in Zend Framework):

if (!$this->_request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {
    die('<textarea>'.Zend_Json::encode($data).'</textarea>');
}
$this->view->assign($data);

Answer 2

Just set Content-Type: text/html

This happens because IE8 doesn't recognize application/... mimetype. This works for me.

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

if you work with Zend you can do

$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');

in your controller action. and on client-side, in case of jQuery, you can do

data = $.parseJSON(data);