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From: Jens Alfke <jens@couchbase.com>
To: "user@couchdb.apache.org" <user@couchdb.apache.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:27:35 -0700
Subject: Re: to CouchApp or not to CouchApp
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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 browser,=
 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 alre=
ady run into this in implementing my CouchCocoa framework.

It is IMHO naive to assume that a browser only wants HTML and a non-browser=
 REST client (like a native app) only wants JSON. That=92s not always true =
and it=92s not the right way to tell the two apart.

=97Jens=