I provided a patch to fix this problem. No more chunk are sent when you ask for an http 1.0 answer (which is the case of nginx and other proxies).
This patch provide valid http 1.0 : no chunk and content-length. It also fix couch.js to have a valid request header over such proxy (body can't be null). This patch don't break http 1.1 comatibility. So if you converse with couchdb in http 1.1 everything works as usual. Patch : https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12380544/compat_http10_couchdb_r649048.diff issue related to this problem : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-40 ok for this ? - benoît
