What's the typical way for a RESTful API to tell clients what content types are supported?

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    • So Accept does work as a response header, specifically for this case. I usually prefer to not do this extra request though. Since you're already using a hypermedia format, usually you can also include a type parameter. HAL supports this for example. Would strongly suggest you don't invent your own format. I do a lot of hypermedia APIs, we also wrote a client

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