> Hi everyone.
> I love JSON and using Prototype has help me reduce the code to handle
> AJAX responses.
> But one thing keeps me confused and sometimes even frustrated.
> I don't really understand what is going on with the headers, so if
> someone could take some time to explain what is going on, I (and
> probably a lot more people) would be very thankful.
> The thing is this. On my local server (Mac OS Leopard Server 10.5.4,
> PHP 5.2.5 by entropy.ch, Apache 2.2 Apple's default) after trying
> different approaches, I finally got JSON to work using this:
> <?php
> $json = json_encode($status);
> header('X-JSON:('.$json.')');
> ?>
> and my javascript to handle the JSON response:
> onSuccess: function(transport,json) {
> Beautiful, works great, on my Mac at least
> When I upload this to the server, it doesn't work.
> I don't know what kind of machine it is, but it is running PHP 5.2.0
> and Apache 2.2 and probably Linux.
> After a few hours of searching on the net and trial/error, this
> worked:
> <?php
> $json = json_encode($status);
> header('Content-type: application/json');
> echo $json;
> ?>
> And the javascript:
> onSuccess: function(transport) {
> var json = transport.responseText.evalJSON();
> So, anyone knows WHY? I would really like to understand what is going
> on here.
> Thank you.
> Joe
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