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Benjamin Young commented on COUCHDB-348:
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Yeah, let's avoid the prefix conversation. If it must be done, it should happen
and be discussed elsewhere...so we don't derail this antique bug getting fixed.
;)
[~janl], I very much like the approach you've described. I do think it's
feasible to at least detect the big 3 browsers (Firefox, WebKit collective, and
IE) and route them accordingly--untold numbers of web servers do this
successfully...certainly we can find a way.
Another orthogonal discussion would be the use of something like HAL
(Hypermedia Application Language) for defining things like this link in the
JSON we return...but that's a separate can of worms that should stay separate.
;)
+1 on adding a link under vendor for now, and routing {{/}} to {{/_utils}} (or
wherever based on a config setting...ideally) following that.
Thanks, [~janl]
> / 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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