Laravel return text/html and not json?

Question

I have this in response headers:

Response headers (165 B)    
    Host    
    "localhost:8000"
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    Connection  
    "close"
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    Content-Type    
    "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
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    Date    
    "Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:33:53 GMT"
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    Transfer-Encoding   
    "chunked"

My controller is quite simple:

public function login(Request $request){

      return response()->json([
        'name' => 'Abigail',
        'state' => 'CA'
        ]);
    }

Im using angular for post.

Answer 1

Laravel provides modify header information using Response class.

Try this way in your controller :

$contents = View::make('embedded')->with('foo', $foo);
$response = Response::make($contents, $statusCode);
$response->header('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
return $response;