I'm actually using Futon. > Alternatively, you can trigger the replication from the source and supply a > user:pass in the target URL.
Thanks Adam, this worked, and my design docs were successfully replicated. I still have no idea why it doesn't work when you want to pull from an ungated DB into a gated DB where you already authenticated. Rob, Chris, thanks for the help. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Adam Kocoloski <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Robert (Campbell), the replicator uses the authentication credentials you >> supply in your POST to /_replicate to open any local DBs. If you're doing >> this through Futon, it may be that Futon is not sending an Authorization >> header in that replication request. I suspect that if you try the request >> manually, e.g. >> >> curl http://user:[email protected]:5984/_replicate -d >> '{"source":"http://source.net:5984/dbname";, "target":"dbname"}' >> >> it will successfully replicate the design docs. Alternatively, you can >> trigger the replication from the source and supply a user:pass in the target >> URL. > > I've been working around this by using the Futon replicator, but > treating both requests as remote dbs, so I can add basic auth > credentials to the target URL. > > Best, >> >> Adam >> >> On Dec 20, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Robert Campbell wrote: >> >>> The source machine is completely open, while the destination machine >>> is locked down. I log in to the destination machine, then select the >>> remote (source, open) database to copy from, then the local, empty DB >>> to copy into. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Is your source machine locked down with admin passwords? If so, the >>>> other machine can't read your design documents, you'll need to >>>> authenticate the replication task. >>>> >>>> B. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Robert Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I have a small database (only 20 docs) and I'm trying to replicate it. >>>>> The result is this: >>>>> >>>>> {"session_id":"7ae2bab4cff6911316ba06f038818cb9","start_time":"Fri, 18 >>>>> Dec 2009 15:03:05 GMT","end_time":"Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:03:09 >>>>> GMT","start_last_seq":0,"end_last_seq":121,"recorded_seq":121,"missing_checked":0,"missing_found":24,"docs_read":25,"docs_written":20,"doc_write_failures":5} >>>>> >>>>> None of the design docs get brought over. Both are 0.10.0 instances >>>>> running on Ubuntu 9.10. Retrying the replication doesn't help. >>>>> >>>> >> >> > > > > -- > Chris Anderson > http://jchrisa.net > http://couch.io >
