Srikanth Rajkumar

This is a very old post and I would like to add more details on this topic. Just because the URL ends with .xml, it does not mean that the response is going to be an XML. The browsers knows the type of response object based on the response header - Content-Type. Based on the content type, the browsers knows how to display the data. In the way an URL that ends with .xml can render an image by using a Content-Type response header.