[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #2759: Response format on https://api.wordpress.org/ has suddenly changed today

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#2759: Response format on https://api.wordpress.org/ has suddenly changed today
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 Reporter:  wpdesk  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |  Milestone:
Component:  API     |   Keywords:
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 Yesterday the https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/slug endpoint was
 responding with serialized body but today it's responding with json
 response.

 Example:
 that should respond with serialized
 https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/woocommerce

 {"name":"WooCommerce","slug":"woocommerce","version":"3.0.3","author":"<a
 href=\"https:\/\/woocommerce.com\">Automattic<\/a>","author_profile":"https:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/woothemes","contributors":
 ...

 and that should respond with json:
 https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.0/woocommerce.json

 In this moment both requests are encoded as json.

 On the other hand the rest of endpoints still behaves correctly.

 The changed behavior for plugins/info endpoint breaks some wp-cli requests
 like for example from plugin precache command
 https://github.com/runcommand/precache

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2759>
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