janl commented on PR #5687:
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/5687#issuecomment-3533277135

   > Thanks for the explanation, it makes more sense now. I am now wondering 
how this file could be utilized in practice.
   
   When you start CouchDB with `[chttpd] port = 0` you leave the port selection 
to the kernel finding a free port. The .uri file then allows you to have a 
well-known place to find the endpoint that you can make HTTP connections to. 
Tests make use of this, e.g.


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