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by adonese 909 days ago
Content negotiation is it just for taste or do you have some other reasons?

I find one good use case for them when a browser can make good use case with a SSE whilst another client just needs a regular _json_ response

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I don't like how undiscoverable it is, and how it blocks browser-based debugging. I'd much rather be able to open an issue with a GET link to a stable representation, where possible.

Cloudflare doesn't support it for caching (more specific Cloudflare doesn't obey the Vary: cache header).