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For certain resources, my RESTful server only accepts PUT and POST requests with JSON objects as the content body, thus requiring a Content-Type of application/json instead of application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data or anything else.

Malformed JSON (or lack thereof) returns a 400 with the error message taken directly from the exception raised by the JSON parser, for debugging purposes.

Which HTTP error code means that the client sent a request with an unacceptable Content-Type, even if the server could technically parse the request content?

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See here for a definitive answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/19417553/… - Chris Halcrow

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