Node.js res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/javascript'); pushing the response javascript as file download

Question

Scenario: Consider the following code to give a JavaScript as a response from the Node.JS server.

var http = require('http');  http.createServer(function (req, res) { var JS_Script = 'function Test() { alert("test success")}'; res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/javascript'); res.send(JS_Script); }).listen(8811); 

Issue: It forcing the browser to download the file.

Question: How can I make it to render on browser?

Note: Working in .net web service with same HTTP-header: 'content-type', 'text/javascript'

So, Its clear following statement does not hold good.
If you want a web browser to render the HTML, you should change this to:

Content-Type: text/html 

Update: On inspecting the content-type during the download its application/octet-stream

But the same when I hit a request with curl, the following is the output:

C:\>curl -is http://localhost:8811/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/javascript Content-Length: 166 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:31:32 GMT Connection: keep-alive  function Test() { alert("test success")} 

Answer 1

Use application/javascript as content type instead of text/javascript

text/javascript is mentioned obsolete. See reference docs.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application

Also see this question on SO.

UPDATE:

I have tried executing the code you have given and the below didn't work.

res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/javascript'); res.send(JS_Script); 

This is what worked for me.

res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/javascript'); res.end(JS_Script); 

As robertklep has suggested, please refer to the node http docs, there is no response.send() there.