Differences between contentType and dataType in jQuery ajax function

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From the documentation:

contentType (default: ‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8’)

Type: String

When sending data to the server, use this content type. Default is “application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8”, which is fine for most cases. If you explicitly pass in a content-type to $.ajax(), then it’ll always be sent to the server (even if no data is sent). If no charset is specified, data will be transmitted to the server using the server’s default charset; you must decode this appropriately on the server side.

and:

dataType (default: Intelligent Guess (xml, json, script, or html))

Type: String

The type of data that you’re expecting back from the server. If none is specified, jQuery will try to infer it based on the MIME type of the response (an XML MIME type will yield XML, in 1.4 JSON will yield a JavaScript object, in 1.4 script will execute the script, and anything else will be returned as a string).

They’re essentially the opposite of what you thought they were.

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