As of the 5.1 update you've introduced a serious issue in to Request.CreateResponse.
If you return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK) (or Accepted or any other success code) and the jquery ajax call is setup something like this:
```
$.ajax({
type: "PUT",
url: url,
dataType: "json",
data: value == null ? null : JSON.stringify(value),
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
```
even though Request.CreateResponse is returning OK it will fail.
And before you say don't set the dataType to json if it isn't expecting a json response, lots of us have a lot of code that is generic for calling web api, and this isn't feesible because it would then have to know if it should be getting a value response back or not.
Web API used to return "no content" in the headers in the above CreateResponse example with no value, as it should. It now is not.
I would classify this as a massively breaking change that needs to be fixed ASAP and a public stable point release produced to fix it.
Comments: I know that there are work arounds, however this used to work and was broken. That shouldn't happen.
If you return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK) (or Accepted or any other success code) and the jquery ajax call is setup something like this:
```
$.ajax({
type: "PUT",
url: url,
dataType: "json",
data: value == null ? null : JSON.stringify(value),
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
```
even though Request.CreateResponse is returning OK it will fail.
And before you say don't set the dataType to json if it isn't expecting a json response, lots of us have a lot of code that is generic for calling web api, and this isn't feesible because it would then have to know if it should be getting a value response back or not.
Web API used to return "no content" in the headers in the above CreateResponse example with no value, as it should. It now is not.
I would classify this as a massively breaking change that needs to be fixed ASAP and a public stable point release produced to fix it.
Comments: I know that there are work arounds, however this used to work and was broken. That shouldn't happen.