Rails respects the Accept header, but the :format URL parameter takes
precedence.
Best of both worlds.



On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:
> does it? Sorry, haven't done any rails for a long time - I thought t was the
> other way round.
> - K
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Mike Bailey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> One trick I've seen is people serving up application/json if the Accept
>>> header includes it, but otherwise, providing a html wrapper that
>>> pretty-formats the json.  Can't remember where I've seen that, but it seemed
>>> a clever way to make a json UI a bit more user-friendly for dumb users.
>>
>> JSON is no place for 'dumb users'.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, what are people's thoughts on serving json based on the URL
>>> (i.e. ending in ".json") vs based on the Accept header (i.e. the Rails way)?
>>
>> I think accepting both is the most flexible.
>> Rails supports '.json'. Did you mean the other way
>> round? http://www.goodfordogs.org/latest/2.json
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