Well, what do you know, they're shipping broken HTTP on purpose, and there's a config option to actually follow the RFC and not break all known browsers and most libraries...
To fix add these two lines to /etc/xdg/desktop-couch/compulsory-auth.ini [httpd] WWW-Authenticate = Basic realm="administrator" And then desktop-couch's futon works! (after a restart) The couchdb default config (/etc/couchdb/local.ini) seems to have this already, but commented out. Apparently the devs left this off to avoid unsightly dialog boxes, but what I think they don't realize, is that it also makes the supplied credentials in the URL not work (because the browsers have no way of knowing to use Basic instead of say Digest authentication). And thus it's impossible to authenticate, except with really geeky programs like curl (and wget if you sift through the manpage very carefully) that let you specify the authentication encoding method. I hope you all will update the couchdb and desktopcouch packages with this configuration option even if upstream couchdb insists on shipping broken HTTP. Thank you, - Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
