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Discovery endpoint serves text/plain content-type on / — r2r clients warn

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by locating the gateway handler for / on port 2121 and the code that serves the kind-10021 advertisement; the issue does not name a file or test. Check how that response sets its Content-Type and add or update a test for the root endpoint. Done when the advertisement is served as application/json and the endpoint test passes.

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Description

Observed during r2r testing on the x1860 bench (2026-09-29): the upstream session manager probing the gateway's :2121/ receives the kind-10021 advertisement with Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 instead of application/json. The client still parses it but logs a warning each probe cycle. Worth normalizing for non-TollGate reseller clients that are stricter about content negotiation.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
12
Forks
14
Avg merge
1d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
217

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