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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by naasking on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @12:18AM (#38359644)
XML, JSON, Protobuf can all be used as object serialization formats. It's not nonsensical at all for an endpoint to offer choice as to what serialization format a client may want to use. It's not common, but that doesn't mean nonsensical.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by Gigachad on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @02:54AM (#38360689)
The client can request the URL that gets the type of response it wants. There is no advantage of using the accept header.
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Re:Why I Tend Not to Use Content Negotiation by naasking on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:03AM (#38363108)
URLs are much longer, harder to remember and harder to communicate than accept header values. It also unnecessarily complicates the API. Seems like there are more than one advantage.
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