json xhr response opens a download file popup window

Question

For one of our ajax request (with a .json response) some of our clients have complained that they are seeing a \"File Download\" prompt asking the user to download the .json res

Answer 1

For people who are using ASP MVC and have the same problem with IE, use this when returning your response:

return Json(result, "text/plain");

Edit: the standard type is: "application/json", but does not work with IE. using text/html is dangerous.