Feature-request: allow makeWebRequest with "Content-Type"= text/html

Is this on the roadmap to be changed?

The server I am working with cannot be changed and returns an empty body with the header Content-Type: text/html. I would have expected HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT_PLAIN to work for Content-Types text/*, similar as the HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_AUDIO accepts Content-Types audio/*.

Would this be possible?

What do you want to achieve by blocking html/text? If I want to send html data, I will do it in base64 in json node. So as I mentioned this limitation only adds extra work and expense in writing the server / proxy

I know it. But when I don't have influence on somebody's server I can't parse html.

So solution is add

HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT_HTML

to API and allow to fetch this kind data.

We check the Content-Type against the :responseType option to ensure the response is what the app expects. We also check the Content-Type to make sure we know how to process the body. If we don’t know how to process the content (based on the header) we generate the error you see.

This is touched on in the docs..

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Communications.html#makeWebRequest-instance_function

If you just want the response text passed through to the application, it should have a text/plain content type.