Malformed JSON Returned from https://alpha-api.app.net/stream/0/users/me

[dquick-freelance]

The endpoint in the title returns malformed JSON, which breaks parsing via jQuery in Firefox unless the return data type is explicit specified, and breaks parsing in Internet Explorer 7-9 regardless of the specified return data type.

To reproduce using curl:

curl -o get-me.txt "https://alpha-api.app.net/stream/0/users/me?access_token=[insert_valid_access_token_here_please]

Response (using one of my tokens):

{ "avatar_image": { "height": 142, "url": "https://d1f0fplrc06slp.cloudfront.net/assets/user/65/30/00/6530000000000000.jpg", "width": 142 }, "counts": { "followers": 380, "following": 127, "posts": 1548 }, "cover_image": { "height": 720, "url": "https://d1f0fplrc06slp.cloudfront.net/assets/user/55/30/00/5530000000000000.jpg", "width": 960 }, "created_at": "2012-08-06T23:34:30Z", "description": { "entities": { "hashtags": [ { "len": 9, "name": "quickApp", "pos": 131 } ], "links": [ { "len": 28, "pos": 144, "text": "http://www.quickapplabs.com/", "url": "http://www.quickapplabs.com/" }, { "len": 7, "pos": 190, "text": "App.net", "url": "http://App.net" } ], "mentions": [] }, "html": "<span itemscope=\"https://app.net/schemas/Post\">I'm Dave - I write software, songs, sonnets, and sometimes silliness. I try to focus on the silliness.\r\n\r\nSpending all my time on <span itemprop=\"hashtag\" data-hashtag-name=\"quickApp\">#quickApp at < a href=\"http://www.quickapplabs.com/\">http://www.quickapplabs.com/ - your real-time <a href=\"http://App.net\">App.net web client, updated (almost) daily with new stuff!", "text": "I'm Dave - I write software, songs, sonnets, and sometimes silliness. I try to focus on the silliness.\r\n\r\nSpending all my time on #quickApp at http://www.quickapplabs.com/ - your real-time App.net web client, updated (almost) daily with new stuff!" }, "id": "247", "locale": "en_US", "name": "Dave Quick", "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles", "type": "human", "username": "q"

Please note the lack of a closing curly brace. This causes IE to fail silently which has caused me no end of grief. This is also somewhat of a showstopper for widespread use of web-based App.net clients that choose to operate without a server-side parsing scheme.

[berg]

I've worked with @dquick-freelance and we can't seem to reproduce. I'll reopen if we can.