diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/typescript/http/jquery.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/typescript/http/jquery.mustache
index d6a25d993ec..3c67c5bd6f1 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/typescript/http/jquery.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/typescript/http/jquery.mustache
@@ -21,14 +21,12 @@ export class JQueryHttpLibrary implements HttpLibrary {
             data: body
         };
 
-        /**
-         * Allow receiving binary data with jquery ajax
-         *
-         * Source: https://keyangxiang.com/2017/09/01/HTML5-XHR-download-binary-content-as-Blob/
-         */
-         requestOptions.beforeSend = (jqXHR: any, settings: any) => {
-             settings.xhr().responseType = "blob";
-         };
+		// If we want a blob, we have to set the xhrFields' responseType AND add a 
+		// custom converter to overwrite the default deserialization of JQuery...
+        requestOptions["xhrFields"] = { responseType: 'blob' };
+        requestOptions["converters"] = {} 
+        requestOptions["converters"]["* blob"] = (result:any) => result;
+        requestOptions["dataType"] = "blob";
 
 
         if (request.getHeaders()['Content-Type']) {
@@ -51,6 +49,7 @@ export class JQueryHttpLibrary implements HttpLibrary {
         if (body && body.constructor.name == "FormData") {
             requestOptions.contentType = false;
         }
+        
         const sentRequest = $.ajax(requestOptions);
         
         const resultPromise = new Promise<ResponseContext>((resolve, reject) => {
diff --git a/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/builds/jquery/http/jquery.ts b/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/builds/jquery/http/jquery.ts
index 238eef3be08..a0cd53a1996 100644
--- a/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/builds/jquery/http/jquery.ts
+++ b/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/builds/jquery/http/jquery.ts
@@ -21,14 +21,12 @@ export class JQueryHttpLibrary implements HttpLibrary {
             data: body
         };
 
-        /**
-         * Allow receiving binary data with jquery ajax
-         *
-         * Source: https://keyangxiang.com/2017/09/01/HTML5-XHR-download-binary-content-as-Blob/
-         */
-         requestOptions.beforeSend = (jqXHR: any, settings: any) => {
-             settings.xhr().responseType = "blob";
-         };
+		// If we want a blob, we have to set the xhrFields' responseType AND add a 
+		// custom converter to overwrite the default deserialization of JQuery...
+        requestOptions["xhrFields"] = { responseType: 'blob' };
+        requestOptions["converters"] = {} 
+        requestOptions["converters"]["* blob"] = (result:any) => result;
+        requestOptions["dataType"] = "blob";
 
 
         if (request.getHeaders()['Content-Type']) {
@@ -51,6 +49,7 @@ export class JQueryHttpLibrary implements HttpLibrary {
         if (body && body.constructor.name == "FormData") {
             requestOptions.contentType = false;
         }
+        
         const sentRequest = $.ajax(requestOptions);
         
         const resultPromise = new Promise<ResponseContext>((resolve, reject) => {
diff --git a/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/tests/jquery/test/http/jquery.test.ts b/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/tests/jquery/test/http/jquery.test.ts
index 007ff42b824..0898ca7f155 100644
--- a/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/tests/jquery/test/http/jquery.test.ts
+++ b/samples/openapi3/client/petstore/typescript/tests/jquery/test/http/jquery.test.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ for (let libName in libs) {
         return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
             lib.send(requestContext).toPromise().then((resp: petstore.ResponseContext) => {
                 assert.ok(resp.httpStatusCode, 200, "Expected status code to be 200");
-                return resp.body.text()
+                return resp.body.text();
             }).then((txtBody: string) => {
                 let body = JSON.parse(txtBody);
                 assert.ok(body["headers"]);
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ for (let libName in libs) {
             lib.send(requestContext).toPromise().then(
                 (resp: petstore.ResponseContext) => {
                 assert.ok(resp.httpStatusCode, 200, "Expected status code to be 200");
-                return resp.body.text()
+                return resp.body.text();
             }).then((txtBody: any) => {
                 let body = JSON.parse(txtBody);
                 assert.ok(body["headers"]);