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Simple string returned by controller action is not a valid JSON! #4945
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[HttpGet] public string Get() { return "Hello World!"; }ASP.NET MVC Core 1.0.0 does this:
200 OK Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Server: Kestrel X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?RDpcVlNcQWNjZWxpc3QuQUlTXEFjY2VsaXN0LkFJUy5XZWJBcHBcYXBpXHZhbHVlcw==?= X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:18:31 GMT Hello World! Meanwhile in ASP.NET Web API 5.2.3 does this:
200 OK Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Expires: -1 Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?RDpcVlNcQWNjZWxpc3QuTURNXEFjY2VsaXN0Lk1ETS5TZXJ2ZXJcYXBpXHRlc3Q=?= X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:22:10 GMT Content-Length: 13 "Hello World" ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, when returningJson("Hello World", JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet), does this:
200 OK Cache-Control: private Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0 X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?RDpcVlNcQWNjZWxpc3QuTURNXEFjY2VsaXN0Lk1ETS5TZXJ2ZXJcaGVsbG8=?= X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:23:57 GMT Content-Length: 13 "Hello World" This is an unexpected behavior for me. Is this a bug or feature? I believe "Hello World!" is a valid JSON response, not Hello World!. Javascript JSON.parse() function can parse the former but not the latter.