Ajax: add note on how to bypass query string alteration for JSON requests #878
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When submitting a LevelGroup solution with "??" (no quotes) in a free response, it was being turned into a weird timestamp by Jquery. By setting "jsonp: false" explicitly, we disable this behaviour. References: jquery/api.jquery.com#878 jquery/jquery#1799 https://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8417
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See jquery/jquery#1799
JSON requests will sometimes get promoted to JSONP if deemed cross-browser (we already document that part). We add a callback name to the query string for JSONP requests (we document that too). The part that isn't documented is that in rare cases, the data for a json request contains a question mark, and so the callback name may be injected into a weird part of the string. Users can work around this by setting
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