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Content negotiation considered harmful

Matilda, 1996

Content negotiation is a feature of HTTP that lets clients ask for, and servers return, different content types based on the request’s Accept header.

Sounds great, right? Well, no. Content negotiation is the classic example of an idea that sounds good in theory, but for the vast majority of web developers, turns out to be net harmful in practice. A few reasons: Continue reading

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