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Set Content-Type header in CakePHP with JSON

I need to set Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 in a data view from CakePHP. I've already tried to set $this->response->header('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8'); but that doesn't change anything. It still just output Content-Type: application/json.

Solution

  • its in the code (CakeResponse, line 447):

    if (strpos($this->_contentType, 'text/') === 0) {
    $this->header('Content-Type', "{$this->_contentType}; charset={$this->_charset}");
} else {
    $this->header('Content-Type', "{$this->_contentType}");
}

    so only for "text/..." the charset will be appended. I dont know why, though...