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Coerce Windows and Internet Explorer (IE) to diplay JSON text inline

Cheeso posted and eventually answered this question on StackOverflow about how to get IE to stop popping a file download dialog when rendering JSON text.

A few things I noticed about the answer that might help others follow:

• You need to add the registry editor version as the first line in the .reg file
• You might want to also include 'text/json' content type.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/json]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Encoding"=dword:00080000


[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\text/json]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"encoding"=dword:00080000

Print | posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:49 AM | Filed Under [ CodeProject-Tip ]