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- When using UTF-8 encoding in requests, data should be transmitted without the BOM line.
- Responses are similarly returned without BOM.
- It's strongly recommended to use JSON POST requests with
Content-type:application/json header
.
Starting from Goodreads version 3.8.0, if you send content via JSON POST method in encoding other than UTF-8, it is necessary to specify it explicitly in the header (for example: "Content-type: application/json; charset=windows-1251").
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