Here it is
dd count=1310720 if=/dev/zero of=dummy640M
curl -H "Content-Type: application/application/octet-stream" -H
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -T dummy640M localhost:5984/test/dummy640M/ -v
* About to connect() to localhost port 5984 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5984 (#0)
> PUT /test/dummy640M/dummy640M HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.2 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
zlib/1.2.1.2 libidn/0.5.6
> Host: localhost:5984
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/application/octet-stream
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Expect: 100-continue
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
0 640M 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
0} [data not shown]
100 640M 0 0 100 640M 0 35.6M 0:00:17 0:00:17 --:--:--
0< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Server: CouchDB/0.9.0a720208-incubating (Erlang OTP/R12B)
< Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:16:06 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 47
< Cache-Control: must-revalidate
<
{ [data not shown]
100 640M 0 47 100 640M 2 35.4M 0:00:18 0:00:18 --:--:--
0* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Closing connection #0
{"ok":true,"id":"dummy640M","rev":"3525093556"}
