Seems to me that this is a simple case of doing it wrong. It's interesting that few people spend the time to understand how the Accept header needs to be handled.
Actually this touches on a broader facet of web development that I find interesting. The barrier to entry is so low for writing a web applications that people can produce serious work without the requisite understanding of the technologies they are using.
This isn't a shot at Netflix. I think we're all guilty of this behavior. The web environment is so forgiving that we can do something the wrong way and it'll just work. Until it doesn't :)
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