Option to force pretty output on response, regardless of Content-type.

[RogWilco]

I'm noticing a few places where the response headers are coming back with a Content-type of "text/html" when they actually contain JSON. It would be nice if, in cases like these, you could somehow specify a format to "force" on the response so that the body could still be prettified.

[RogWilco]

Ah, I see this is related to #67 which seems to address this very need. Closing ticket...

[RogWilco]

Actually, looks like that change didn't make it in. Any chance something similar could be added in? Maybe a way to override the response headers with user-specified values (similar to the headers argument, but for responses)?

[ghost]

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This would be nice to have. Some servers respond with Content-Type: text/html and JSON bodies.

[marko-asplund]

+1

[jlandahl]

+1

[dequis]

FWIW, i'm workarounding invalid content type responses by piping the output to jq

[kfix]

see #368

[jkbrzt]

Now with the --json, -j option HTTPie tries to detect JSON responses when the Content-Type is unknown or text/plain.

[dflock]

Now with the --json, -j option HTTPie tries to detect JSON responses when the Content-Type is unknown or text/plain.

Right, but there's still no way to force it, so if the Content-Type is text/html but the content is JSON, then you're still out of luck - you have to pipe through jq or something.

Given the number of poorly configured REST API endpoints in the world, having the option to force/override the Content-Type seems like a valid request.