This works for me:
curl -X POST -d
'{"source":"http://couchdb:5984/db","target":"db","continuous":true,"cancel":true}'
http://couchdb:5984/_replicate
Only difference is that I never use a url in "target" so I run cancel locally
from where your process is running.
On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Zachary Zolton wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I know you're supposed to be able to cancel a continuous replication
> task by adding "cancel":true to the JSON body, but I've never been
> able to get it working.
>
> For example, I just started this replication job:
>
> curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5984/_replicate' -d
> '{"source":"my-db","target":"http://username:[email protected]/target-db","continuous":true,"create_target":true}'
>
> Then, I tried to cancel it:
>
> curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5984/_replicate' -d
> '{"source":"my-db","target":"http://username:[email protected]/target-db","continuous":true,"cancel":true}'
>
> I get the following result:
>
> {"error":"not_found"}
>
> Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong here?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zach
>
>
> P.S. I'm aware of the instructions on the wiki:
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Cancelling_a_continuous_replication_task
