Martin Panter added the comment:

The Curl programmer replied basically saying there was no scientific reason, 
but since Curl was previously sending a custom Accept header, it was safer to 
leave a bare-bones Accept header in than completely remove it. Plus he thought 
it might be slighly more compatible with websites.

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