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Subject: Re: reverse proxy discouraged?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:03:15 -0400
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What about these scenarios:

1. I have a web 2.0 GUI based application where a user can create some con=
tent by pushing buttons and writing snippets of code -- the end result is=
 stored as text -- and then saved to the database.
2. I want the user to be able to list their files, edit them, then resave=
 them -- all from the web 2.0 interface.

or

1.  I have a web 2.0 application where users input the vitamins levels the=
y take vs their symptom levels for each day. Each day
they can input their own symptom descriptions and values like 1 to 10.
2. When prompted,  the system grabs all their data and runs statistics on=
 it in javascript.

In each case I want to do authentication -- like login/session/signup.
That kind of thing.

The web 2.0 GUI interfaces for both these projects involve
1000's of lines of javascript from different libraries, and multiple graph=
ic image sets for the GUI, all of which are changing all the time
during the development process.=20

How is couchdb used in these scenarios. Right now I'm trying to get it wor=
king with couch.js but running into the cross domain problem.  I can't sen=
d anything from an html page into the :5984 port.

Thanks,

Dan


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-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Sent: Thu, Aug 19, 2010 4:42 pm
Subject: Re: reverse proxy discouraged?


I think for your use case a reverse proxy is fine, especially if the

'web2.0' content is a server itself running

python/ruby/perl/java/erlang/scala/node/insert/favorite/middleware/here

At which point you likely don't even need to expose couch to the

outside at all. Just put it in your private network and access it from

your application server.


Exposing couch directly to the world via a reverse proxy is probably

only a good plan if you need to co-host a public couch with other apps

or static files behind different virtual hosts or if you want to do

complicated authentication in front of your couch that couchdb can't

do itself.


-Randall


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 15:41,  <whimsica@aol.com> wrote:

> Is using a reverse proxy to serve up html and couchdb from the same doma=
in and=20

port problematic?

> Someone told me that it is highly discouraged

>

> and that html pages should be served from couchdb.

> But on a site that is web 2.0 and has a complicated GUI there would need=
 to be=20

100's of attachments that would be necessary to correctly

> serve up a page as an attachment to a document.

>

> This sounds unreasonable for development where 100's of changes are made=
 per=20

day.

>

> The reverse proxy method seems feasible but why would it be discouraged?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Dan

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