diff --git a/app/Models/Plugin.php b/app/Models/Plugin.php
index 33a29d5..3c279d7 100644
--- a/app/Models/Plugin.php
+++ b/app/Models/Plugin.php
@@ -235,15 +235,9 @@ class Plugin extends Model
             }
         }
 
+        // Default to JSON parsing
         try {
-            // Attempt to parse it into JSON
-            $json = $httpResponse->json();
-            if($json !== null) {
-                return $json;
-            }
-            
-            // Response doesn't seem to be JSON, wrap the response body text as a JSON object
-            return ['data' => $httpResponse->body()];
+            return $httpResponse->json() ?? [];
         } catch (Exception $e) {
             Log::warning('Failed to parse JSON response: '.$e->getMessage());
 
diff --git a/tests/Feature/PluginXmlResponseTest.php b/tests/Feature/PluginXmlResponseTest.php
index 5811089..308d914 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/PluginXmlResponseTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/PluginXmlResponseTest.php
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ test('plugin parses XML responses and wraps under rss key', function (): void {
     expect($plugin->data_payload['rss']['channel']['item'])->toHaveCount(2);
 });
 
-test('plugin parses JSON-parsable response body as JSON', function (): void {
+test('plugin handles non-XML content-type as JSON', function (): void {
     $jsonContent = '{"title": "Test Data", "items": [1, 2, 3]}';
 
     Http::fake([
@@ -95,28 +95,6 @@ test('plugin parses JSON-parsable response body as JSON', function (): void {
     ]);
 });
 
-test('plugin wraps plain text response body as JSON', function (): void {
-    $jsonContent = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet';
-
-    Http::fake([
-        'example.com/data' => Http::response($jsonContent, 200, ['Content-Type' => 'text/plain']),
-    ]);
-
-    $plugin = Plugin::factory()->create([
-        'data_strategy' => 'polling',
-        'polling_url' => 'https://example.com/data',
-        'polling_verb' => 'get',
-    ]);
-
-    $plugin->updateDataPayload();
-
-    $plugin->refresh();
-
-    expect($plugin->data_payload)->toBe([
-        'data' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet',
-    ]);
-});
-
 test('plugin handles invalid XML gracefully', function (): void {
     $invalidXml = '<root><item>unclosed tag';