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Helge Heß

@simon I think it is useful to have resource variants that are also addressable by URL, like /calendar/x/1.ics vs /calendar/x/1.html or /calendar/x/1.json. But that you can have /calendar/x/1 and have that resource serving the proper thing via Accept, is an HTTP superpower to me.

15 November at 2:32 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Simon Willison

@helge I get the theory, but in twenty years of mucking around on the Web I've never actually seen real concrete benefit from APIs that do that - I've just found it frustrating

15 November at 2:36 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Helge Heß

@simon Fair, I don't think I ever really relied on content negotiation either 🙈 My opinion is that a good setup should support both, accept and extension based type lookup.

15 November at 2:49 | Open on mastodon.social
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