Github user rnewson commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/284#issuecomment-64911996
I proposed this semantic on the ticket;
if Accept line is *exactly* "application/json", then send application/json,
otherwise send text/html.
That puts a surmountable requirement on XHR calls and doesn't require
browsers to send sensible Accept headers (which they probably never will).
At this point, someone from the Fauxton team should chip in, perhaps all
this ugliness is really because of Futon and we can make a clean break?
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