R: Set content-type and accept headers.

content_type {httr} | R Documentation

## Set content-type and accept headers.

### Description

These are convenient wrappers aroud `add_headers`.

### Usage

    content_type(type)

    content_type_json()

    content_type_xml()

    accept(type)

    accept_json()

    accept_xml()

### Arguments

`type` | A mime type or a file extension. If a file extension (i.e. starts with `.`) will guess the mime type using `guess_type`.

### Details

`accept_json`/`accept_xml` and `content_type_json`/`content_type_xml` are useful shortcuts to ask for json or xml responses or tell the server you are sending json/xml.

### Examples

    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers")

    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", accept_json())
    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", accept("text/csv"))
    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", accept(".doc"))

    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", content_type_xml())
    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", content_type("text/csv"))
    GET("http://httpbin.org/headers", content_type(".xml"))

[Package httr version 1.3.1 Index]