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andraz
on July 25, 2012
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So you want to offer a public API …
exactly! All use of headers in web APIs just makes it harder to understand them by regular developers of API cleints.
Graphon
on July 25, 2012
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Using a content-type header instead of .json or .xml (etc) extension in the URL is just another example of this phenomenon. There's a reason people are moving to use dot extensions in URLs - it's easier to adopt and test.
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