I think my point is, if URLs don't work, nothing will. There's no free lunch.
But if an optimization surfaces, I will happily stand corrected. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > -1 on using URI/URLs, for the simple fact that mobile and desktop > devices often don't have a stable hostname and/or IP address. This is a > huge area where CouchDB is used, increasingly so, and attempting to tie > a DB UUID to something inherently variable on the platform is doomed to > fail. > > Renaming my PC or phone, getting a new DHCP address, connecting to a > different network or changing the MAC address of my NIC should not > invalidate my DBs, their "UUIDs", or cause unreasonable problems for > replication. > > -Joan -- Iris Couch
