1420874 - service calls with format=json should show content on browser itself instead of opening in application

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect, P5)

Description

[Ram Dayal Vaishnav [:ram]]

I am not able to see output of API with format=json in the browser, it tries to open in an application.

Comment 1

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

(In reply to Ram Dayal Vaishnav [:ramd] from comment #0)
> I am not able to see output of API with format=json in the browser, it tries
> to open in an application.

I cannot make sense your report.  What is "service" and "API"?

Comment 2

[Ram Dayal Vaishnav [:ram]]

sorry for not providing more information..

I was talking about the URLs which return JSON data, something like https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts?format=json. I am not able to reproduce this issue now, but I came across one URL which was returning JSON data and instead of showing the data in browser, firefox was downloading the data as a file and asking me to open with an external application like notepad.

Thanks,
Ram

Comment 3

[:Paolo Amadini]

Without the original example URL it's difficult to tell for sure, but it's quite likely that the server requested the browser to download the file using the "Content-Disposition" header, so the issue should be fixed on the server side. The URL provided in comment 2 seems to work as expected.