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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by MenhirMike on Sunday November 19, 2023 @10:57PM (#38342083)
> Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.

If /fred returns HTML, then the URL is perfectly fine, since the only real consumer of fred.md or fred.json are automated systems/API clients, and they couldn't care less what the URL looks like, only that it's predictable.

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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by manwe150 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:04PM (#38342120)
It is a good trick with GitHub though that you can add .patch or .diff to the url to fetch the content without styling
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by amake on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:04AM (#38343124)
It's not just styling. The content is actually a `git format-patch` patch for the former a unified-format diff for the latter.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by going_north on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:35AM (#38343434)
Another good one for GitHub is that you can do

    github.com/[username].png
to get that username's profile picture.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by theblazehen on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:54AM (#38344185)
And

        github.com/[username].keys
to get their ssh keys
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by barosl on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:01AM (#38344250)
We have

  github.com/[username].gpg
to get their OpenPGP keys, too!
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by rapnie on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:58AM (#38345074)
Just go for .secrets to get it all in one request.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by withinboredom on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:17AM (#38346375)
2 things.

What about any of that is "secret?"

This endpoint does not work.

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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by mewpmewp2 on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:16AM (#38346911)
Try .credit-card instead. Pretty sure that one works.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by moondev on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:48AM (#38344939)
Adding .pibb to a gist url is another nice trick
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