Make 404 responses compatible with CouchDB API #56
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The CouchDB REST API returns always
"error": "not_found"
in the body of a 404 response:http://couchdb-13.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api-basics/#http-status-codes
The npm client depends on the magic string 'not_found' as can be seen
in requestDone() in npm-registry-client/lib/request.js.
Before this change, npm install of an unknown package was reporting
the Sinopia error string and a stack trace of npm:
After this change, npm install of an unknown package returns a nice
error saying "the package is not in the npm registry, bug the author"