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Practical ASP.NET Web API
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Practical ASP.NET Web API

by Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 43m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 4

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Customizing Response

Request for Comments (RFC) 2616 defines content negotiation asthe process of selecting the best representation for a given response when there are multiple representations available.” RFC also states “this is not called format negotiation, because the alternate representations may be of the same media type, but use different capabilities of that type, be in different languages, etc.” The term negotiation is used because the client indicates its preferences. A client sends a list of options with a quality factor specified against each option, indicating the preference level. It is up to the service, which is Web ...

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