# The content type is overwritten in any case if a specific [[Serialization|media-type]] is chosen, again as query parameter or within the query.
The following three example requests will all return <code>application<a/xml></code> as content-type result and use <code><aapplication/>xml</code> as resultcontent-type:
:<code>http://admin:admin@localhost:8984/rest?query=%3Ca/%3E</code><br/><code>http://admin:admin@localhost:8984/rest?query=%3Ca/%3E&method=xml</code><br/><code>http://admin:admin@localhost:8984/rest?query=%3Ca/%3E&media-type=application/xml</code>