When is it recommended to use text/plain content type over text/html.
Imagine I'm developing an endpoint which is consumed in an async manner (ajax) and only returns a string. Am I supposed to use the text/plain content type in this case?
Is it safe to say that text/html should only be used if the response body contains HTML tags?
With text/plain, you can only send text file content
With text/HTML you can send HTML file content, allowing markup formatting
It's that simple...
Don't overthink it, it's quite self explantory
Text:
<b>some bold text</b>
HTML:
some bold text
If you want to render the string returned by API in browser as it is then you can use text/plain. Else If you want browser to render you content as html then use text/html.
For Example, if <b>Hi there</b>is returned from API.
So text/plain will print <b>Hi there</b>, but text/html will print Hi There.
