Content-Type Header

What is the Content-Type header?

The Content-Type header tells the recipient how to interpret the bytes of the HTTP body (e.g. parsing it as JSON, XML, or multi-part form data).

API Usage & Best Practices

• Use standard types: Modern JSON APIs should use application/json or application/problem+json for errors.
• Validate incoming mutations: If a client sends an unsupported type in a POST/PUT, reject it with 415 Unsupported Media Type.

Examples

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8