Setting content-type header with restify results in application/octet-stream

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I'm trying out restify, and though I'm more comfortable with Express, so far it's pretty awesome. I'm trying to set the content type header in the response like so: ``` server.get('/xml', function(req, res) { res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/xml'); // res.header('content-type', 'application/xml'); // tried this too // res.contentType = "application/xml"; // tried this too res.send("stuff"); }); ``` But the response I get back is instead `application/octet-stream`. I also tried `res.contentType('application/xml')` but that actually threw an error (`"Object HTTP/1.1 200 OK\ has no method 'contentType'"`). What is the correct way to set the content type header to xml on the response? Update: When I do `console.log(res.contentType);` it actually outputs `application/xml`. Why is it not in the response headers? Curl snippet: ``` * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache * Trying 127.0.0.1... * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0) > GET /xml?para…

Accepted Answer

Turns out the reason this was failing is because I was not sending the response using `Restify`'s response handler; it was defaulting to the native Node.js handler.

Where I was doing this:

```
res.send(js2xmlparser("search", obj));
```

I should have been doing this:

```
res.end(js2xmlparser("search", o));
//  ^ end, not send!
```

Setting content-type header with restify results in application/octet-stream

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