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I might be misinformed, but wasn't the purpose of stuffing version/format into the URL so that it is easier to develop with? I.e. setting only one URL to make a request is easier than having to set an URL + Accept Version Header + Accept Format Header.

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Both the format and version are in the same header if that helps. So there are a couple values in there you might have to change, similar to the couple values you would have to change in the url to modify version/format. So in that regard I think the difficulty or complexity of one or the other is pretty similar. Hope that helps explain a bit, but let me know if I missed the point of your question.

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