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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:48:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: to CouchApp or not to CouchApp
From: Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>
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a 401 response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header, this causes an
unstylable modal dialog box on all browsers (the HTML you want to send
will not matter).

This is why we cannot do as you suggest.

B.

On 16 August 2011 17:45, Marcello Nuccio <marcello.nuccio@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/8/16 Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com>:
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Marcello Nuccio wrote:
>>
>>> Ignoring for an instant that this is hard to implement, as Jason says.
>>> What is the problem if I send an HTML response, if the requested
>>> resource is HTML?
>>
>> Because if the client requesting the HTML is not a user-facing web brows=
er, the 302 is the wrong response, because the client won=92t know what to =
do with the resulting login form (unless it does screen-scraping.) I=92ve a=
lready run into this in implementing my CouchCocoa framework.
>
>
> I am not saying to respond with 302. I am saying:
>
> =A0- ALWAYS respond with 401
> =A0- IF the Accept header says "text/html" is a valid response AND the
> requested resource is of type "text/html", THEN send HTML in the body
> of the response, ELSE send JSON.
>
> Never send 302 instead of 401.
> Never send HTML if not "accepted" by the client and it is the type of
> the requested resource.
>
> Why is this not standard compliant?
>
> Marcello
>