The function I used is from the "CouchDB Definitive Guide". It's in both the security and validation sections.
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/security.html "We had an update validation function that allowed us to verify that the claimed author of a document matched the authenticated username." Is the guide outdated, is it an error in the guide, or did I misunderstand what it is to be used for? Or all three perhaps? That aside, why does the function prevent updating all fields except the author field when that is the one in the validation function? What am I missing in couchdb's logic? Marcus
