There are 3 ways to use media types in web APIs. http://blog.kevburnsjr.com/domain-specific-media-types-and-rest http://blog.kevburnsjr.com/domain-specific-medi

There are 3 ways to use media types in web APIs. http://blog.kevburnsjr.com/domain-specific-media-types-and-rest http://blog.kevburnsjr.com/domain-specific-media-types-and-r... 0 domain specific media types (application/json) 1 domain specific media type (application/vnd.github+json) many domain specific media types (application/vnd.github-issue.text+json, ...) GitHub's v3 API uses the latter.