Override the HTTP_ACCEPT header with _accept parameter in Django. Taken from Django Snippets: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1042/

accept_middleware.py

def parse_accept_header(accept):
    """Parse the Accept header *accept*, returning a list with pairs of
    (media_type, q_value), ordered by q values.
    """
    result = []
    for media_range in accept.split(","):
        parts = media_range.split(";")
        media_type = parts.pop(0)
        media_params = []
        q = 1.0
        for part in parts:
            (key, value) = part.lstrip().split("=", 1)
            if key == "q":
                q = float(value)
            else:
                media_params.append((key, value))
        result.append((media_type, tuple(media_params), q))
    result.sort(lambda x, y: -cmp(x[2], y[2]))
    return result


class AcceptMiddleware(object):
    def process_request(self, request):
        if '_accept' in request.GET:
            param = request.GET['_accept'].replace(' ', '+')
            accept = parse_accept_header(param)
            request.accept_header = param
        else:
            accept = parse_accept_header(request.META.get("HTTP_ACCEPT", ""))
            request.accept_header = request.META.get('HTTP_ACCEPT', '')
        request.accept = accept
        request.accepted_types = map(lambda (t, p, q): t, accept)