On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Chris Stockton <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked through the code, and noticed: > > A bit of code from [1]: > > handle_external_req(#httpd{ > 29 path_parts=[_DbName, _External, UrlName | > _Path] > 30 }=HttpReq, Db) -> > 31 process_external_req(HttpReq, Db, UrlName); > 32 handle_external_req(#httpd{path_parts=[_, _]}=Req, _Db) -> > 33 send_error(Req, 404, <<"external_server_error">>, <<"No server > name specified.">>); > 34 handle_external_req(Req, _) -> > 35 send_error(Req, 404, <<"external_server_error">>, <<"Broken > assumption">>). > > From what I have seen of erlang, this means if no DBName exists, then > it will not work. Maybe we could add a optional path without a dbname > so people could make global external handlers or would more code be > required? > > [1] > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/couchdb/trunk/src/couchdb/couch_httpd_external.erl?view=markup >
This bit of code will be going away in a version or two. You'll want to look at the http proxy for handling arbitrary requests now (which will be in 1.1.0)
