I believe the idea would be that you use filtered replication between the master and the individual user databases, all of which you control.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Nebu Pookins <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Jeroen van Dijk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > So far I don't understand why this approach is needed > > when it seems one could also use: > > http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#Filtered_Replicationdirectly. > > However, I have no practical experience with this so I would be happy to > > hear why that is not feasible. > > I don't have any practical experience with filtered replication > either, but from reading the docs, it seems like the user decides > whether or not they want to filter their replication by passing in the > name of the filter-function in the URL. Therefore, you can't use this > to restrict access to a document, because otherwise, a user could just > modify the URL to remove the filter, and thus gain access to all > documents. > > - Nebu > -- “The limits of language are the limits of one's world. “ -Ludwig von Wittgenstein
