g'day i am playing with the plain user:psw auth in url, and it gives funny results. at least to me.. (couchdb 1.2.0 in latest ubuntu)
i register some user, say name=a/psw=b. with auth: $ curl GET http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a is fine without auth: $ curl GET http://_users/org.couchdb.user:a returns 404 {"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} now with auth, but in browsers: - opera http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a works - firefox http://a:b@/_users/org.couchdb.user:a warns about "server not needing authentication".. and strips the usr/psw yielding 404 - iexplorer - 404 - strips unconditionaly is this something that is expected to be so? maybe the error can be changed (to 401) ? i don't know that part about the "server not needing authentication" .. maybe something in the headers ? or some config of couch_httpd_auth ? ciao svilen
