API for developers. What Content-Type should I use?

Question

I'm developing now API for developers feature, which gives users API access to some functions of our product.

All responses are in json format.

HTTP Content-Type header in our server's response is text/plain; charset=utf-8

Should I send one of this:

• application/json
• text/x-json
• text/json

instead of text/plain.

Or for API feature text/plain Content-Type is acceptable?

Answer 1

I'd use application/json as mentioned in the official JSON spec.

Answer 2

application/json