Replicating through an nginx server?

[Stephan Wissel]

Hi there,

I have a timeout problem with my replications. My replication request
roughly looks like:
(I started with https, but now test with http first, step by step)

{
        "target": "wisselblog",
        "source": {
            "url": "http://someserver.com/couch/wisselblog";,
            "auth": {
                "oauth": {
                    "consumer_secret": somesecret",
                    "consumer_key": "somekey",
                    "token_secret": "tokensecret",
                    "token": "sometoken"
                }
            }
        },
        "connection_timeout": 60000,
        "user_ctx": {
            "name": "stw",
            "roles": ["_admin"]
        }
    }

CouchDB sits behind a nginx HTTP server. When I access the database via
browser everything works nicely.
However I get timeouts and no replication when I try to replicate.

The Error in the log looks like this:

[Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:38:49 GMT] [info] [<0.16786.0>] Retrying *HEAD*
request tohttp://someserver.com/couch/wisselblog in 0.25 seconds due to
error {conn_failed,{error,nxdomain}}

I poked around with CURL and found a strange behavior of nginx:

when executing curl -X HEAD the connection won't close (times out), only
with curl --head it works as expected.

I suspect (?) CouchDB does something similar as CURL?
Is there a way to fix that. Server Couch is 1.6x client 1.7


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