Json response download in IE(7~10)

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I am trying to upload a file and return a json response regarding properties(name, size etc) of the file. It works fine in all browsers except IE. IE tries to download the JSON as a file ! I have IE10 and testing it on IE7 to 10 by changing browser mode and document mode from the debugger. I am using asp.net mvc4, the file upload action have HttpPost attribute and i am returning json response using return Json(myObject); And here are my http headers Request ``` Key Value Request POST /File/UploadFile/ HTTP/1.1 Accept text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */* Referer http://localhost:63903/ Accept-Language en-NZ User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) Content-Type multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------7dc1e71330526 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Host localhost:63903 Content-Length 1377002 DNT 1 Connection Keep-Alive Cache-Control no-cache ``` Response ``` Key Value Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server ASP.NET Development Server/11.0.0.…

Accepted Answer

You will need to return the json as `text/html` since IE does not know what to do with `application/json` contents..

```
return Json(myObject, "text/html");
```

Not sure but it might work (and it would be more correct if it does) to use `text/x-json`

```
return Json(myObject, "text/x-json");
```

Json response download in IE(7~10)

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