Open JSON responses in IE

Internet explorer doesn’t like opening JSON response by default and will normally ask you to save the file. if you apply the following registry changes, then the JSON response will open in IE nicely. Although i think Firefox handles this better with nice formatting over CHROME or IE.

 

anyhow, here’s the reg fix.(you may want to back up these keys first if you want to revert)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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; Tell IE to open JSON documents in the browser. 
; 25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13 is the CLSID for the "Browse in place" .
; 

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/json]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Encoding"=hex:08,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/x-json]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Encoding"=hex:08,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\text/json]
"CLSID"="{25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}"
"Encoding"=hex:08,00,00,00