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Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-947:
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I take my previous statement back and pronounce the opposite.
The reason is any website could restart your local CouchDB (or any CouchDB
under a well known URL) by sending a form submit to that URL. By requiring the
Content-Type to be application/json, we ensure an HTML form can't do this.
It's inconvenient, but required. Sorry.
> /_restart API requires "Content-Type: application/json"
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> Key: COUCHDB-947
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-947
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Database Core
> Affects Versions: 1.1, 1.2
> Environment: Mac OS X 10.6.5
> Reporter: Filippo Fadda
> Fix For: 1.0.1, 1.1, 1.2
>
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> The "/_restart" API requires "Content-Type: application/json" header. This is
> not coherent because the API doesn't need parameters to be passed using JSON.
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