HttpResponse vs. Render

Question

I was looking over some code and came to this question -- Django: What is the difference b/w HttpResponse vs HttpResponseRedirect vs render_to_response -- which discusses the di

Answer 1

Sure, say you're making an AJAX call and want to return a JSON object:

return HttpResponse(jsonObj, mimetype='application/json')

The accepted answer in the original question alluded to this method.