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Published in May 2015

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ISBN-13 9781784398378

Pages 322 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Introduction

Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API

Extending the ASP.NET Web API

API Management

Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps

Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus

Creating Hybrid Services

Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework

Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage

Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure

Index

Content negotiation

Content negotiation is an HTTP technique to identify the "best available" response for a client request when multiple responses may be available on the server.

Note

The RFC 2616 (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec12.html) specification for HTTP allows server-driven, agent-driven, and transparent negotiations. For the scope of this chapter, we focus on server-driven negotiations.

The negotiation between the client and the server is accomplished through a set of HTTP headers. These header fields are used by the client to express the desired content type or media type, this information is then used by the server to format the response in a way the client can understand:

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`Accept` headers	These specify certain attributes that are acceptable for a response. These headers specify to the server the type of response expected. For example, `Accept: application/json` will expect a JSON response. Other `Accept` headers include `Accept-Charset`, `Accept-Encoding...`