"pre" tags wrapping json response during image upload

[Trevis]

Ok so, i noticed when i return json from a servlet that i'm using to
handle image uploads that the reply was wrapped in a <pre> tag, i put
in code to scrape it off and all seemed fine, till i tested in ie8.
In that browser the pre tag was upper case! so i fixed that. Today i
decide to test in chrome and in that browser it's wrapped in this <pre
style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> what gives??!
Am i doing something wrong that is causing it to do this? I'm worried
now that i'll have to check in every browser just to see what this
thing does.

[Thomas Broyer]

Just return text/html, as recommended in the JavaDoc (and don't forget
to use &lt; for < and &amp; for &)

[Trevis]

Kudos sir, it seems that worked like a charm. I had the type set to
text/plain in my servlet. What javadoc has this recommendation? I'm
just curious. Is it in the doc for GWT somewhere or in the apache
commons doc?

I actually got my base implementation for the file uploader from the
Google Web Toolkit Solutions book, and he called the issue a bug. ( I
think that his book was written against GWT 1.3 ) I just assumed that
it'd never been fixed. But i guess it was probably never a GWT bug.

http://www.amazon.com/Google-Web-Toolkit-Solutions-Useful/dp/0132344815

Trevis