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

Drop the .json and set the content type as text/html. IE doesn't know what type of file you are sending it, so it offers to download. It knows what to do with text/html :)