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# Content negotiation
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> HTTP has provisions for several mechanisms for "content negotiation" - the process of selecting the best representation for a given response when there are multiple representations available.
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> — [RFC 2616][cite], Fielding et al.
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[cite]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec12.html
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**TODO**: Describe content negotiation style used by REST framework.
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## Custom content negotiation
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It's unlikley that you'll want to provide a custom content negotiation scheme for REST framework, but you can do so if needed. To implement a custom content negotiation scheme, override `BaseContentNegotiation`, and implement the `.select_parser(request, parsers)` and `.select_renderer(request, renderers, format_suffix)` |