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Description:

We need to figure out, in a holistic manner, how, site-wide we would like to handle AJAX communication over HTTP.

We should stick to HTTP status codes and the standards for their use/meaning in responses.

We should use Content-Type back and forth to communicate what is being transferred in either direction.

We should use the Accept header on the back-end to determine HOW to render a response to specific requests. 

This would mean that if someone wants to add support for XML, no new endpoints should need to be written in order to render a given URI in XML, one would just be able to set the request Accept header, and create a response formatter for that Accept format.

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