[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1175?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13051185#comment-13051185
]
Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-1175:
----------------------------------------
I understand completely, I didn't find any comment harsh.
I should note that I created COUCHDB-1175 with the specific intention of using
q-values for this. Currently we don't use them. Before 1.1 we tested for
"text/html" first and "application/json" second. Whichever you accepted first
would be used. The order was inverted in 1.1.
RFC 2616 does *not* require us to return the highest valued type (Section 14.1
says we SHOULD, not MUST, use the ordering), so neither 1.0 or 1.1 is
technically 'not standard compliant'. Moreover, many browsers add '*/*' to the
end of their accept list, which makes proper negotiation impossible. For
example, given;
"Accept: text/html, */*"
Both 'text/html' and 'application/json' have a q-value of 1, they are exactly
equally preferred. What to do?
Firefox sends "Accept:
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", it's true,
which means we'll send text/html, not application/json, but this doesn't work
for all browsers.
> Improve content type negotiation for couchdb JSON responses
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: COUCHDB-1175
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1175
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.0.2
> Reporter: Robert Newson
> Fix For: 1.1, 1.2
>
>
> Currently we ignore qvalues when negotiation between 'application/json' and
> 'text/plain' when returning JSON responses.
> Specifically, we test directly for 'application/json' or 'text/plain' in the
> Accept header. Different branches have different bugs, though. Trunk returns
> 'application/json' if 'application/json' is present at all, even if it's less
> preferred than 'text/plain' when qvalues are accounted for.
> We should follow the standard.
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
