I don't fully understand what you are trying to do, but it looks like the replicator does support providing oauth tokens: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication#OAuth
Generally, the easiest way to replicate on behalf of a user is to set it replication as an _admin, but provided an appropriate user_ctx property: https://gist.github.com/832610#8-the-user_ctx-property-and-delegations hth, -natevw On Oct 11, 2012, at 6:45 AM, svilen wrote: > i need to start replications on behalf of a user. > > i see there's basic http user/psw authtenticaion, and some form of > oauth. > basic http means i have to keep usr/psw around, and use them when i need > replication. > but i'd like to avoid storing that usr/psw. > > as i see there are cookies (via /_session), can replicator work with > cookies somehow? > > or if not, how can i use oauth given there's no 3rd party involved > (facebook/twitter/..)? e.g. some kind of degenerate made-up-myself? > > ciao > svil
