diff --git a/boards/views/sync.py b/boards/views/sync.py
--- a/boards/views/sync.py
+++ b/boards/views/sync.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
-import xml.dom.minidom
 
 from django.http import HttpResponse, Http404
 from boards.models import GlobalId, Post
@@ -50,13 +49,7 @@ def get_post_sync_data(request, post_id)
 
     xml_str = SyncManager.generate_response_get([post])
 
-    xml_repr = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml_str)
-    xml_repr = xml_repr.toprettyxml()
-
-    content = '=Global ID=\n%s\n\n=XML=\n%s' \
-              % (post.global_id, xml_repr)
-
     return HttpResponse(
-        content_type='text/plain; charset=utf-8',
-        content=content,
-    )
\ No newline at end of file
+        content_type='text/xml; charset=utf-8',
+        content=xml_str,
+    )