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The "Session_API" page has been changed by RobertNewson: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Session_API?action=diff&rev1=11&rev2=12 Comment: restore information on GET /_session === Log in === - To create a session (=log in), do a + To acquire a session cookie, do a {{{ POST /_session }}} with "name" and "password" fields. These can be sent either as JSON or the standard form data encoding; just be sure to set the Content-Type appropriately. (The latter format allows you to log in directly from a simple HTML form.) + + You can see your logged-in user name and roles with + {{ + GET /_session + }}} + + if you pass either your session cookie or authenticate with basic auth; + {{{ + Authorization: Basic <base64-encoded-username:password> + }}} The username is the "name" field of a user's record in CouchDB's _users database.
