That's by design. In 1.2.0 you can only see your own user document. B.
On 22 March 2013 13:03, svilen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
