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A main feature of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is that it allows clients and servers to negotiate what kind of formats both support. They do this using the [[Accept Header]]. | A main feature of the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is that it allows clients and servers to negotiate what kind of formats both support. They do this using the [[Accept Header]]. | ||
This allows implementation of APIs that are [[ | This allows implementation of APIs that are [[Backward Compatibility| Backwards Compatible]] using [[Versioning#Content_Negotiation | Content Negotiation Versioning]]. Additionally this feature can be used to serve modern image and video formats to clients that indicate support for it. | ||
== Mechanism == | == Mechanism == | ||