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Dylan16807 on Nov 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Parsing Malformed JSON

Only when specific uncommon headers are set. Under normal circumstances, if you feed them a malformed xhtml document, they will parse it.

pwdisswordfish2 on Nov 24, 2019 [–]

Sending XML with the proper application/xml (or some other) media type is rather common.

Sending XHTML with the HTML media type doesn't count. In that case you're just sending malformed HTML which the browser doesn't recognise as XML at all.

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