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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by fortran77 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:31PM (#23261655)
Does the HTTP "accept" tag play a role here?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by detaro on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:43PM (#23261861)
That's a header the client sends to a server to indicate which formats it would like in the response to it's requests, and not relevant to the problem.
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by Aqua_Geek on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:40PM (#23261814)
I don't follow. How does the "Accept" header factor in here?
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by tobylane on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:54PM (#23262050)
Rule of least astonishment would be that the file is converted unless the accept header lists the heif file. At least by the expectations Apple set up, which don’t match up with standards.
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