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Matt Goodall commented on COUCHDB-348:
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I don't disagree with this at all - an HTML version of the couchdb root
resource would make sense. However, some browsers (yes, Internet Explorer)
don't always send text/html in the Accept header. So, sadly, it's not actually
true that all browser prefer HTML to JSON. IE sends an insane Accept header and
the best match ends up being "*/*" which means it may be up to the server to
prioritise text/html over application/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: 0.11
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> Attachments: COUCHDB_348_01.patch, COUCHDB_348_02.patch
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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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