Node js res setHeader content-type text javascript pushing the response javascript as file download

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Scenario  Consider the following code to give a JavaScript as a response from the Node JS server  var http   require  http     http createServer function  req  res    var JS Script    function Test     alert  quot test success quot      res setHeader  content-type    text javascript    res send JS Script      listen 8811    Issue  It forcing the browser to download the file  Question  How can I make it to render on browser  Note  Working in  net web service with same  HTTP-header   content-type    text javascript  So  Its clear following statement does not hold good  If you want a web browser to render the HTML  you should change this to  Content-Type  text html  Update  On inspecting the content-type during the download its application octet-stream But the same when I hit a request with curl  the following is the output  C   gt curl -is http   localhost 8811  HTTP 1 1 200 OK Content-Type  text javascript Content-Length  166 Date  Tue  09 Apr 2013 10 31 32 GMT Connection  keep-alive  function Test     alert  quot test success quot

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You can directly set the content type like below   res writeHead 200    Content-Type    text plain       For reference go through the nodejs Docs link

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Use application javascript as content type instead of text javascript  text javascript is mentioned obsolete  See reference docs   http   www iana org assignments media-types application  Also see this question on SO   UPDATE   I have tried executing the code you have given and the below didn t work   res setHeader  content-type    text javascript    res send JS Script     This is what worked for me   res setHeader  content-type    text javascript    res end JS Script     As  robertklep has suggested  please refer to the node http docs  there is no response send   there

[node.js] Node.js res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/javascript'); pushing the response javascript as file download

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