True, but I think you still need some kind of proxy to ensure that users can only hit the rewritten URLs.
I also find CouchDB URL rewriting and vhosts trickier to set up than just writing a little Sintra or Node.js app. --Zach On Sunday, February 13, 2011, Janez Štupar <[email protected]> wrote: > You could do something like that utilizing the rewrite handler to prohibit > access to documents and views (redirect all request to a show that tells > users to sod off), while only allowing a PUT to the database and GET to the > said show. > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Jonathan Geddes <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> couchdb users, >> >> I'm thinking of using a couchapp for an upcoming project, but there is >> one capability that I'm unsure of. >> >> I need a database that anyone can post to, but only admin can read >> from. The requirement is to allow users to post personal information >> that other users cannot see. If I understand the couchdb permissions >> model correctly, for a given db, anyone who can create documents can >> also read documents. >> >> Is there a way to do this with a couchapp? It seems a shame to have to >> add "middleware" just to get this one capability. >> >> thanks, >> >> --Jonathan >> >
