In my case it turned out that the problem was also my http library unencoding the '/' before sending the request.
Maybe as a workaround for .Net you could try double-escaping the character like so: "_design%252fmyview". If you unencode that once, you get "_design%2fmyview". 2008/11/8 John Bartak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is a follow up to the message from Nov 1 entitled "Creating views > using PUT". > > In a manner similar to the original poster, I'm trying to create a view > using an HTTP POST request. I try to post to > http://localhost:5984/somedatabase/_design/myview, but instead of creating > a document with an id of "_design/myview", it creates a document with an id > of "_design", with an attachment called "myview". The original thread > discussed encoding "/" between _design and myview as "%2F". > > Unfortunately, this technique doesn't work from .Net. The .Net Uri object > (and therefore the HttpWebRequest object) automatically unescapes the URI. > There doesn't appear to be any way to change this behavior. > > When we were running CouchDB version 0.9.0a698039 we didn't have to escape > the slash character. The latest version (0.9.0a712213) requires this > escaping. > >
