Found a possible workaround that I don't believe was mentioned.
Basically as long as you use forms/url-encoded/plain text content types you are fine.
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
headers: {
'Accept': 'application/json',
'Content-Type': 'text/plain'
},
dataType: "json",
url: "http://localhost/endpoint",
data: JSON.stringify({'DataToPost': 123}),
success: function (data) {
alert(JSON.stringify(data));
}
});
I use it with ASP.NET WebAPI2. So on the other end:
public static void RegisterWebApi(HttpConfiguration config)
{
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.Formatters.Clear();
config.Formatters.Add(new JsonMediaTypeFormatter());
config.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new MediaTypeHeaderValue("text/plain"));
}
This way Json formatter gets used when parsing plain text content type.
And don't forget in Web.config:
Hope this helps.