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Non-conformant Accept header

See original GitHub issue

With the recent fix for #470, HTTPie sends:

Accept: application/json, */*

This header is not quite correct. According to RFC 7231 § 5.3.2, it says: “I accept JSON or anything else”. Because there are no explicit quality values (q=) specified for either media range, they are both assumed to be 1, so application/json and */* are equally acceptable.

*/* should be marked with a lower quality value, for example:

Accept: application/json, */*;q=0.5

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inkstakcommented, Jul 4, 2019

Another example.

Sending a request with such Accept header to a Rails app, which is serving browsers & API, will always return an HTML response :

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/8987

As @kjmph said, it’s because some browsers don’t set quality score correctly.

We can assume this behavior should be quite common to many other web servers

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inkstakcommented, Apr 3, 2020

Hi @jakubroztocil, did you take a look on last comments ? Is it possible to reconsider your position on this problem ?

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