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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:47:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Benjamin Young (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-348) / should redirect to a human
 readable page when accessed from a browser
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Benjamin Young commented on COUCHDB-348:
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So clients can be changed far more easily than browser. Additionally, we can do some User-Agent string sniffing if it comes to that.

curl sends {{Accept: */*}} and {{User-Agent: curl/7.30.0}} fwiw.

Browser sniffing is an old (dark) art, and seems it wouldn't be terrible to tackle that and default to the {{application/json}} when we can't figure it out.

Certainly a note about the change with a minor (or major) point release along with contacting client authors directly and even doing a bit of testing/documenting/pull-requesting would be needed for the smoothest transition.

It beats not doing it.

> / should redirect to a human readable page when accessed from a browser
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-348
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-348
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>            Reporter: Chris Anderson
>            Assignee: Robert Newson
>         Attachments: COUCHDB_348_01.patch, COUCHDB_348_02.patch, COUCHDB_348_03.patch, encs.erl
>
>
> As more people are adopting CouchDB, the number of questions along the lines of "All I see is {"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.10.0a773399"}, what now?"
> If this page redirected to /_utils/ (or maybe something more user-focussed) when the accept headers included html, we could make the first-time user experience more palatable.
> There's some code in COUCHDB-234 that might be helpful here.


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