I guess everyone starting with CouchDB would like to have a little nicer error messages. JSONView* Firefox add-on with a little patch can ease a this pain.
By default it beautifies only responses with content-type application/json. But this is easy "fixable" if you register it for text/plain responses too. Yeah, I now it's not a nice and clean approach but it looks like working for now. :) Here is how: - find the jsonview.js in the add-on directory (if you are not able find it you probably don't want to mess with it, sorry); - adjust postRegister and preUnregister functions; - restart Firefox. * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10869
