We'd welcome a patch to restore that configurability. No particular reason to not do it that I can think of.
> On 14 Oct 2016, at 07:35, Daniel Munch <dani.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello together, > > I've been reading through the mailing lists and the JIRA issues and > the issue came up already twice: There's currently no possibility for > configuring authentication_handlers for chttp like there was for http. > > 1) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201609.mbox/browser > 2) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201609.mbox/browser > > The thing is: I'd love to test and use CouchDb 2.0 on our project, > however I do depend on a third-party authentication module > (couch_jwt_auth). > > So I went ahead and went checking the sources (always handy to know at > least some erlang when you're using CouchDb!) and realized that it > would actually be pretty straight-forward to use the mechanism used in > couch_httpd.erl also for chttpd to make authentication_handlers > configurable and thus third-party auth modules available. > > But before I start hacking away and send a pull-request I wondered if > there was a deeper reason for why this hasn't been done yet and which > I'm still ignoring/overseeing? > > Thanks a lot in advance, and thanks a lot for the effort put into CouchDb, > Daniel