The right JSON content type?

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Published on 2009-01-25T15:25:19Z Indexed on 2012/06/20 3:16 UTC
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Right I've been messing around with JSON for some time, just pushing it out as text and it hasn't hurt anybody (I know of), but I'd like to start doing things properly.

I have seen so many purported "standards" for the JSON content type:

application/json
application/x-javascript
text/javascript
text/x-javascript
text/x-json

But which is right? Or best? I gather that there are security and browser support issues varying between them...

(I know there's a similar question, What MIME type if JSON is being returned by a REST API?, but I'd like a slightly more targeted answer.)

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