Accept and content negotiation has a long established history, and content negotiation is different than the server making decisions based upon metadata.
It's one thing for the client to say "give me this resource in this format" its another for the server to say "oh you're coming from version X.Y of OS Z, I know what you really want."
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Accept and content negotiation has a long established history, and content negotiation is different than the server making decisions based upon metadata.
It's one thing for the client to say "give me this resource in this format" its another for the server to say "oh you're coming from version X.Y of OS Z, I know what you really want."