js ajax content type,javascript - Content-Type Ajax json missing - Stack Overflow

I wrote some php code that outputs some valid json, and sets the content-type header to application/json in my dev setup. However when I deploy this script to a embedded webserver it works fine except it's not capable of sending the content-type. It's not possible to run a other webserver.

Now I have the following code for Dynatable. Even though my dev and my embedded webserver, serve exactly the same file, and the only difference is the content-type. It works for my dev setup, however it doesn't work for my embedded setup.

I use the following code to load the json file to dynatable.

document.ready(

$.ajax({

url: 'phpApi.php',

success: function(data){

$('#myTable').dynatable({

dataset: {

records: data

}

});

}

}));

So can someone explain me why the content-type is so important for ajax? How can I tell my code manually its json?