580453 - Content-type for JSON files should be application/json, not text/json

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Statistics, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Our Content-Type for https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/z/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/statistics/downloads-day-20100115-20100715.json is:

text/json

But it should be application/json

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

why?

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #1)
> why?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/477816/the-right-json-content-type

Comment 3

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

I prefer JSON to be readable in the browser. Anything consuming JSON should be able to deal with text JSON.

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Sorry for reopening, but I disagree. If the standard says application/json, then you need to fix your browser[1], instead of using the wrong mime type :(

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8207/

Comment 5

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

As far as I can tell, it is not a standard. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt explicitly says it is not a standard. IANA has registered application/json as a valid type but that doesn't mean we have to use it.

And I think usability trumps a pseduostandard, especially one that will result in most of the people viewing it being immediately annoyed.

Comment 6

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

WONTFIXing again since no one has challenged my last comment.

Comment 7

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Verifying that you didn't read the standard ;)