[SOLR-10998] Support "Accept" request header as alternative to "wt" parameter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Server
• Labels: http-headers standards
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 03/Jul/17 14:53
• Updated: 09/Nov/24 14:11

Description

Spinoff from email

Advertises which content types, expressed as MIME types, the client is able to understand
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept

Could replace or at least be an alternative to “wt”. Examples:
Accept: application/xml
Accept: text/csv

Issue: Most browsers sends a long accept header, typically application/xml,text/html, */* , and now that json is default for Solr, we’d need to serve JSON if the accept header includes “*/*"

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SOLR-11760 Accept Header is not honored / Errors returned in XML instead of JSON