content-type of text-plain causes browser to download of file

Question

I\'m writing a web application API, where when someone accesses a URL, it returns text data. I set the content-type to \"text/plain\", but when I access it with Chrome, it down

Answer 1

Laurence's explanation is correct. Only IE and Chrome is performing mime sniffing at the time of this post. You can now just set the HTTP header X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff and it will do the trick!