Is there a way to do an http request within the server-side _show or _view functions, or is the JS context limited to what's defined by Spidermonkey and main.js? My understanding is that Spidermonkey doesn't provide an xmlhttprequest object.
Also, does CouchDB ship with an interactive javascript shell, or do you have to build and install your own? I found the couchjs executable, but it only interprets javascript files. -Sam
