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mike-cardwell
on Sept 15, 2010
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Please review my API for HackerNews
IIRC there is some Internet Explorer issue involving the "application/json" content type which makes it safer to just use "text/plain". Worth looking up...
RyanMcGreal
on Sept 15, 2010
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You usually access an API programmatically rather than via the browser, so this shouldn't be an issue for most use cases.
pmjordan
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Unless it supports CORS for cross-domain access from the browser:
http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
Which it probably doesn't.
mike-cardwell
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It says in the first paragraph that he intends to support jsonp in the future. It will matter then.
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