Github user kxepal commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-chttpd/pull/111#issuecomment-206931507
@rnewson Everywhere all the time:
```
$ echo '{"foo":4}' | http put http://localhost:15984/db/test
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 67
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:13:26 GMT
Etag: "1-80d7ea9795ad67ad0e7a1e567c15314e"
Location: http://localhost:15984/db/test
Server: CouchDB/fc9acc2 (Erlang OTP/17)
X-Couch-Request-ID: 13cab4abd5
X-CouchDB-Body-Time: 0
{
"id": "test",
"ok": true,
"rev": "1-80d7ea9795ad67ad0e7a1e567c15314e"
}
```
```
$ echo '{"foo":4, "_rev": "1-ABC"}' | http put
http://localhost:15984/db/test?new_edits=false
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Length: 38
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:13:39 GMT
Etag: "1-ABC"
Location: http://localhost:15984/db/test
Server: CouchDB/fc9acc2 (Erlang OTP/17)
X-Couch-Request-ID: 2c37ce6ed3
X-CouchDB-Body-Time: 0
{
"id": "test",
"ok": true,
"rev": "1-ABC"
}
```
Also [from
docs](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/document/common.html#head--db-docid).
And many entries in wiki I'm lazy to search for. That's an old feature that
simplifies caching without adding some new entity to remember.
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