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Chris Anderson commented on COUCHDB-348:
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The check would be relatively straightforward, web-sane, and friendly to API
clients. No browser-sniffing required.
If the client sends an HTTP Accept header that prefers HTML to JSON (as
browsers do), then we'd send HTML, otherwise we'd send JSON.
> / 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
> Fix For: 0.10
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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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