I have
    [httpd]
    WWW-Authenticate = Basic realm="administrator"

and it works for me. Can you try to add the "realm"?

HTH,
  Marcello

2012/5/13 Jens Alfke <[email protected]>:
> I’m trying to enable correct HTTP auth in my CouchDB by adding the option:
>        [httpd]
>        WWW-Authenticate = Basic
>
> If I add this using Futon it works … but then it stops working after the 
> server is restarted. Looking at the .ini file on disk, the option got written 
> out with the name lowercased:
>        www-authenticate = Basic
> I’ve tried several times to edit the config file (after shutting down the 
> server) and fixing the capitalization, but it keeps getting reset to 
> lowercase every time the server starts.
>
> Is this a known issue? Is it something that’s been fixed recently? My server 
> is out of date but I’m having trouble installing 1.2 (see prior thread.)
>
> —Jens

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