Ajax request breaks response body?

Question

I'm baffled trying to get this to work properly. I'm using jQuery 1.10.3 to attempt retrieval of a JSON-encoded object. This request should normally be fulfilled by a php script, which (when visited directly) returns it correctly (at least, to the human eye). However, when I use a jQuery request to fetch it, I end up with a ton of garbage that jQuery can't parse. It looks like so:

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When it should look like this:

{"227382":[{"id":"1593515742","type":"household",

What am I doing wrong here?

PHP source of the request proxy: http://pastebin.com/hYcb1L2Z Line that inits the jQuery ajax request: $.getJSON( "proxy.php?Action=GET&Url= https://somesite.com/getsomeJson&lang=eng " )

Answer 1

For some reason the proxy.php script wasn't passing along the

Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8

header. Fixed that and all is working much better!