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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-348:
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Maybe we "had this backwards" from the start, but it's too late to change it
now.
We know for a fact that your suggestion breaks some programmatic clients
hitting /. Earlier this year, [~rnewson] and [~drsm79] I believe had a list of
specific clients that broke on this, and it's a non-insignificant percentage of
the world. It would also break naive curl samples and how-tos that have been
around for years - it's way, way more than just Futon and Fauxton that hit / !
> / should redirect to a human readable page when accessed from a browser
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> 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
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> 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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