Hi Gilbert, awesomecake project :)
You can write an validate_doc_update function to deny any writes to a database, or restrict access only to admin users. Read all about it here: http://books.couchdb.org/relax/design-documents/validation-functions http://books.couchdb.org/relax/reference/security There's some newer stuff in the upcoming 0.11 release: http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_show/post/CouchDB-Accounts Cheers Jan -- On 9 Mar 2010, at 11:31, Gilbert B Garza wrote: > Hey couch devs and fans, > > I'm currently a college student doing a research project for my class and > state government. The project is about taking first steps towards government > transparency. We will be parsing some ill-formated government data and doing > some analysis on it, as well as hosting the data online. > > Now, pertaining to the "data hosting": we're going to be offering basic > downloads for available data, but what I would *really *like to offer (in > addition) is read-only direct access to couchdb. In other words, it would be > great if I could simply provide a url for each database, and interested > persons could download/install couch (hopefully easily by now!), copy paste > the link, and instantly have data ready to be used and analyzed on their > local machine. > > Is anonymous read-only replication possible? Is there some other way to > accomplish this goal? I used to follow couch almost two years ago, so I'm > not quite up to date on couch's cool new features and applications. > > Thanks, and great work so far! > -Gilbert
