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The XMLHttpRequest.overrideMimeType() method overrides the MIME type returned by the server. This may be used, for example, to force a stream to be treated and parsed as text/xml, even if the server does not report it as such. This method must be called before send().
void overrideMimeType(DOMString mimetype);
<p>{{draft}}{{APIRef('XMLHttpRequest')}}</p>
<p>The <strong>XMLHttpRequest.overrideMimeType()</strong> method overrides the MIME type returned by the server. This may be used, for example, to force a stream to be treated and parsed as text/xml, even if the server does not report it as such. This method must be called before <code>send()</code>.</p>
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void overrideMimeType(DOMString <var>mimetype</var>);</pre>