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The implementation of Safari push notifications requires the website to create a url where Apple/Safari can POST error messages. The content that Apple sends is a JSON object that contains details about possible errors that exist within the user's website and it's use of the push notification feature.

When Apple/Safari sends this POST request, the content-type sent is 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', however it should be 'application/json' based on the actual content.

Certain web servers attempt to parse the incoming POST body based on the content-type header and the parse operation fails because the request's content cannot be parsed as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' data.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a website that implements Safari Push notifications.
2. Send a push notification with the incorrect number of 'url-args' based on the application's urlFormatString.
3. Monitor the incoming traffic from Apple regarding the push notification errors.
4. The content-type of the incoming request will be incorrect

Expected Results:
The content will be a JSON message similar to:

{"logs":["Notification arguments [1] mismatches format string https:\/\/zeropush.com\/safari?%@=%@"]}

The Content-Type of the incoming request will be application/json

Actual Results:
The content will be a JSON message similar to:

{"logs":["Notification arguments [1] mismatches format string https:\/\/zeropush.com\/safari?%@=%@"]}

The Content-Type of the incoming request will be application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Version:
SafariNotificationAgent (unknown version) CFNetwork/673.0.3 Darwin/13.0.0 (x86_64) (MacBookPro5,1)