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Request headers

Clients supply preferences via explicit HTTP headers, which the server audits to decide the best response format:

`Accept`

Defines the media types that the client is willing to receive.

Accept: text/html (Requesting visual website)
Accept: application/ld+json (Requesting machine-readable json-ld)
Accept: text/turtle (Requesting standard triples via turtle)
Accept: text/n3 (Requesting verbose RDF via notation3)
Accept: text/csv (Requesting tabular data via csv)

`Accept-Language`

Informs the server about the client's language preferences (e.g., en-US, fr).

`Accept-Encoding`

Identifies what compression algorithms (gzip, deflate, br) the client understands.

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`Accept`
`Accept-Language`
`Accept-Encoding`

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