So, while prototyping an unrelated UX feature, I decided to deploy a simple website with some static JSON files to an Azure Web App. You've guessed right, it doesn't work!
It turns out that the MIME types aren't set (in my case a JSON file) by default.
Here's a link to a post explaining how you can fix this by adding the appropriate web.config entry: http://sabbour.me/how-to-serve-static-json-files-from-a-windows-azure-website/
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