I was referring to Apache / nginx vhost. But I did not know this issue , good to know for the future.
Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >On 01 Jan 2014, at 23:32 , Stanley Iriele <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can't you just use vhosts and rewrites to take care of that?... >Also...you >> could use list functions to ad an extra step yo do anything you want >with >> the results of a view before sending it to a client > >vhosts are using the `Host` header in HTTP requests. While mandatory in >HTTP 1.1, CouchDB will happily answer to HTTP 1.0 requests without a >`Host` >header and will serve the default `/` URL and any subsequent one. > >Do not use CouchDB vhosts as a security mechanism. > >Best >Jan -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
