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Surely, impact to API consumers was considered in changing to a header based approach. What if a company is using an API proxy like Apigee and now has to go through a change control process to incorporate a new custom header on outbound requests? If the 2 options for passing versioning ended up as a toss up, what arguments for a header based design outweighed the negative impacts to consumers?


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