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Joan Touzet commented on COUCHDB-348:
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We spent a week on this at Cloudant, trying to put a nice dashboard at the
top-level, and found far too many broken user-agents and programmatic libraries
that expect JSON (pycurl is a good example, but IE as well where it accepts
*/*) where sending back a friendly top-level page vs. JSON is a huge issue.
I propose we close this as WONTFIX and consider alternative approaches in
COUCHDB-472, such as /index.html redirecting to a nice human-readable page.
> / 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: 1.3
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> Attachments: COUCHDB_348_01.patch, COUCHDB_348_02.patch,
> COUCHDB_348_03.patch, encs.erl
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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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