Hi Will, The quotes are because the key has to be valid JSON ... and in JSON, a string has to be in quotes!
Paul On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, william kinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi (again), > > It seems that the startkey query parameter requires quotes around the value. > However, my lovely Apache java HttpClient library doesn't like that, and > throws a org.apache.commons.httpclient.URIException: Invalid query. > Has anyone had any experience with this? I'd like to avoid having to extend > or hack http client to get around this. > > On a side note, I've never seen quotes being specified/used in query > parameters before. I couldn't find any mention of it in the w3c spec. I'm > sure of course it is intended functionality. Bu t does anyone know why? > > Thanks, > Will >
