On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, Marcello Nuccio <marcello.nuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/8/16 Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com>: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> My revised proposal was to send text/html (and 302's) in all cases >>> except for the very specific case where the Accept header is exactly >>> one item and that item is 'application/json'. All programmatic calls >>> can meet that (libraries incapable of this are de facto poor >>> libraries), and the ambiguity is vanquished. >> >> <myuserdevopinion> >> should be application/json imo. We are a document oriented db speaking >> in json first. If someone accept text/html where the only thing we >> send on resource is json, we should send an error by default (maybe a >> setting could override that). > > This is not what is needed to fix the bug. > The only requirement is: if I ask an HTML, give me an HTML, not a JSON. >
that's not how the spec works. > This is what I do if the user is authenticated, and I see no reason > for not doing it when the response is a 401. > > Marcello > i don't follow. how it is related?
