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Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-348:
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The way we’d do this is only show HTML if we can be reasonably certain we see a
browser. That could be based on a number of headers we know only browsers send
in that combination. If we can’t be sure, we send JSON, as usual. In addition
we could store a cookie in the browser to mark this.
Alternatively, we could send a link to /_utils in the welcome JSON:
{"couchdb":"Welcome","uuid":"0189308e0394cfdcf495074d7dec7cd7","version":"1.5.0","vendor":{"version":"1.5.0","name":"The
Apache Software Foundation", "admin":"http://127.0..0.1:5984/_utils/"}}
(inside vendor because e.g. Cloudant might have a different URL)
> / 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
> Assignee: Robert Newson
> 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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