[Catalyst] REST, JSON and Content-Type

[Christopher Laco]

J. Shirley wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Christopher H. Laco
> <claco at chrislaco.com> wrote:
>> So, I'm trolling through the ASP.NET 3.5 docs on JSON and AJAX and it talks
>> about GET not being enabled by default for a web service and that the mime
>> type must be application/json
>>
>> Of course the REST package has this:
>>
>>>            'text/x-json'        => 'JSON',
>> Near as I can gather, the official type is appliction/json:
>>
>>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/json/message/337
>>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/
>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt
>> And to make matters more fun, MIME::Types has neither.
>>
>> I know, I know. "Well volunteered". :-)
>>
>> Before I go patching things and submitting RT bugs, what do we want to do
>> with REST?
>>
>> I vote to support both mime types. Near as I figure, it can't hurt to do so.
>>
>> Perhaps a warning about using an outdated mime type?
>>
>> -=Chris
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I'm in hearty agreement -- and I use "application/json" in my apps these days.
> 
> -J
> 
> 

Committed to trunk.

RT filed for MIME::Types

-=Chris