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Version API by Accept Header with Vendor Media Types in Python

Build a mock HTTP server that routes to API versions by parsing vendor-specific Accept headers in Python.

api-versioning accept-header http-server
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from http.client import HTTPMessage
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer


class VendorVersionHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        accept = self.headers.get("Accept", "")
        version = "v1"
        if "application/vnd.myapi.v2+json" in accept:
            version = "…
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