Javascript – Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type text/javascript

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I keep getting "Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type text/javascript.", but everything seems to be working fine. This only seems to be happening in Safari 4 on my Mac.

I was advised to add "meta http-equiv="content-script-type" content="text/javascript" to the header, although that did nothing.

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The most common way to get the error is with the following code:

<img src="" class="blah" />

A blank url is a shortcut for the current page url, so a duplicate request is made which returns content type html. The browser is expecting an image, but instead gets html.

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It means that the server is sending a Javascript HTTP response with

Content-Type: text/plain

You need to configure the server to send a JavaScript response with

Content-Type: application/javascript

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Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/html.

Technically that's not an error but a notice / warning and should not cause any issues in particular; if anything it's a good indication that some browsers may choose to ignore such a response.

The correct Content-Type response header for JavaScript according to the RFC is:

Content-Type: application/javascript

Previous values of text/javascript and application/x-javascript are either obsolete or deprecated respectively; that said, IE <= 8 will only accept the former so be careful when making any changes to your documents.

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