# CircleCI not sending Content-Type in API responses without specific Accept request header

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [December 31, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111 "2017-12-31T07:40:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![yschimke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/yschimke/32/10247_2.png) [@yschimke](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/yschimke)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111/1 "2017-12-31T07:40:31Z")

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Ideally Content-Type would be included even if not specified in the request headers.

This was for [https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/me](https://circleci.com/api/v1.1/me)

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**Author:** ![levlaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/levlaz/32/36978_2.png) [@levlaz](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/levlaz)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111/2 "2017-12-31T15:00:43Z")

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This is the intended behavior for now as documented here: [https://circleci.com/docs/api/v1-reference/#accept-header](https://circleci.com/docs/api/v1-reference/#accept-header)

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**Author:** ![yschimke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/yschimke/32/10247_2.png) [@yschimke](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/yschimke)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111/3 "2018-01-01T06:17:01Z")

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Nicely formatted JSON is _still_ application/json. It doesn’t contradict the statement you posted. TIOLI.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/circleci-not-sending-content-type-in-api-responses-without-specific-accept-request-header/19111/4 "2018-06-18T11:35:21Z")

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