# RJS not sent as text/javascript

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 23, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rjs-not-sent-as-text-javascript/94167 "2006-04-23T20:50:05Z")\
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I’ve made a couple of other posts about this and finally figured out  
what was  
wrong. For some reason, the RJS response was not being sent with a  
content  
type of “text/javascript” (which it should be, per the dox). The  
following  
line in each controller method that renders RJS makes my app work:

@headers[‘Content-Type’] = ‘text/javascript’

Does anyone know why the content type might not be getting set  
correctly?

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I think I encountered this problem when I rendered some partials to a  
string. That seems to set the content type, and subsequent renders  
don’t fix it.

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Steve R. wrote:

> I’ve made a couple of other posts about this and finally figured out  
> what was  
> wrong. For some reason, the RJS response was not being sent with a  
> content  
> type of “text/javascript” (which it should be, per the dox). The  
> following  
> line in each controller method that renders RJS makes my app work:
> 
> @headers[‘Content-Type’] = ‘text/javascript’
> 
> Does anyone know why the content type might not be getting set  
> correctly?
> 
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How exactly are you calling the rjs render? Just a pass-through  
(meaning no render statement)? using respond\_to do |type|?

Either of those methods should pass the proper header. Any other way of  
doing it would probably send the default html header.

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## It’s a pass-through and I’m at a loss to understand why the correct header is not being sent. I thought the :partial thing held some promise, but reduced it to render only the word ‘hello, rjs’ and that didn’t work with me explicitly setting the headers.

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