You're trying to perform a privileged function as a normal user. You have two options: 1. Make all users admins 2. Create a cgi script on the server that verifies the parameters from the user and creates the db.
Wout. On 25 Aug 2010, at 03:48, [email protected] wrote: > I want a user to signup for a couchdb database on my web page > I am using couch.js functions to do this and I can create a new database on > the server. > > If there is no server admins it works fine. Or if I am logged in as server > admin it works fine. > But if I am logged out of futon it will not allow the user to create a db. > > How can I do the couch.js db.create() if it requires a server admin account > to do so? > I don't want to send my credentials with the request like > http://dan:whims...@localhost:5984 because > then someone could read that from the javascript. > > I don't understand how you are supposed to do this. > I also can't be logged in all the time. > > How can this work if the login:pass have to be in the javascript? > > Dan > > > > > > >
