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Noah Slater commented on COUCHDB-348:
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This would be an abuse of HTTP semantics. Representations (i.e. the different
media types) are meant to represent the same conceptual resource. Switching in
Futon based on the Accept header would be a gross abuse of content negotiation,
as Futon is not the HTML representation of any resource which also has the root
CouchDB JSON response as another representation. The only two options we have
for this ticket is to close it as WONTFIX, or to replace the root resource with
Futon - that is, to make Futon live at the root of CouchDB.
> / 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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