[COUCHDB-419] Replication HTTP requests lack User-Agent and Accept headers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10
• Component/s: Database Core
• Assignee: Adam Kocoloski
• Reporter: Henri Bergius
• Created: 20/Jul/09 12:13
• Updated: 13/Aug/09 19:40
• Resolved: 13/Aug/09 19:40

Description

Currently when making replication HTTP requests to a remote CouchDB instance, CouchDB makes the HTTP requests "anonymously", without providing any information that it is a CouchDB instance and that it wants to receive JSON.

Examples of what this could be:

User-Agent: CouchDB/0.9.0
Accept: application/json

See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

It would be good to add these headers to HTTP requests made by CouchDB, as it makes it easier for other systems like Midgard to support the replication protocol:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/couchdb_and_midgard_talking_with_each_other/