From 6dfd68b5ec2436205dad8a795bad50bec38c150c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charan Rathore <180254320+charan-rathore@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:13:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Format JSON bodies regardless of MIME type casing

JSONFormatter matched the content type case-sensitively, so a response
declared as APPLICATION/JSON (or any other casing) was printed raw
instead of being pretty-printed. Lower-case the MIME string before
matching, as RFC 9110 media types are case-insensitive.

Fixes #1958.

Signed-off-by: Charan Rathore <180254320+charan-rathore@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 httpie/output/formatters/json.py |  1 +
 tests/test_output.py             | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/httpie/output/formatters/json.py b/httpie/output/formatters/json.py
index bc6151e42f..a3a1aad9d6 100644
--- a/httpie/output/formatters/json.py
+++ b/httpie/output/formatters/json.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
         self.enabled = self.format_options['json']['format']
 
     def format_body(self, body: str, mime: str) -> str:
+        mime = mime.lower()
         maybe_json = [
             'json',
             'javascript',
diff --git a/tests/test_output.py b/tests/test_output.py
index 2242177dbc..ed713bafcb 100644
--- a/tests/test_output.py
+++ b/tests/test_output.py
@@ -629,3 +629,41 @@ def test_response_mime_overwrite_incorrect():
     # The provided Content-Type is simply ignored, and so no formatting is done.
     r = http('--response-mime=incorrect/type', DUMMY_URL)
     assert XML_DATA_RAW in r
+
+
+class TestJSONFormatterMIME:
+    """JSONFormatter must match the body MIME type case-insensitively (#1958)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def make_formatter():
+        from httpie.output.formatters.json import JSONFormatter
+        return JSONFormatter(
+            format_options={'json': {'format': True, 'sort_keys': True, 'indent': 4}},
+            explicit_json=False,
+        )
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        'mime',
+        [
+            'application/json',
+            'APPLICATION/JSON',
+            'Application/Problem+JSON; charset=UTF-8',
+        ]
+    )
+    def test_format_body_matches_mime_case_insensitively(self, mime: str):
+        formatted = self.make_formatter().format_body('{"a": 1}', mime)
+        assert '\n' in formatted
+        assert json.loads(formatted) == {'a': 1}
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        'mime',
+        [
+            'text/plain',
+            'application/xml',
+        ]
+    )
+    def test_format_body_case_parity_for_non_json(self, mime: str):
+        # An upper-cased MIME type behaves exactly like its lower-case form.
+        body = '{"a": 1}'
+        formatter = self.make_formatter()
+        assert formatter.format_body(body, mime.upper()) == formatter.format_body(body, mime)