Nathan Vander Wilt created COUCHDB-2562:
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Summary: Wrong Content-Type for continuous changes feed
Key: COUCHDB-2562
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2562
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Security Level: public (Regular issues)
Reporter: Nathan Vander Wilt
When a client requests a continuous changes feed and includes an "Accept:
application/json" header, the response comes back as "Content-Type:
application/json" even though the content is not parseable as JSON.
I think the proper thing to do in this specific case is to respond with "406
Not Acceptable", or if this is considered too extreme and HTTP allows it,
proceed anyway but claim "Content-Type: application/x-ldjson" instead (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Delimited_JSON#MIME_Type_and_File_Extensions).
This is an issue that some acknowledged as a bug during the discussion on
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-604 but didn't get its own ticket.
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