On 09/18/2012 09:11 AM, Zera Holladay wrote: > Futon is built with jquery.couch. okay so source should show examples - though this is a couchapp I believe >> The resulting http request is listed as: >> PUT http://localhost:5984/_users/org.couchdb.user%3Abob >> >> but where is the actual username and password in the http request ? > In the body of the request. okay, but this is missing (ie left for reader to figure out - which is difficult - we're trying to work thru all this but examples would make it easier I can accept that we might be missing something, but can anyone vouch that they actually have this working in a non couchapp app? > Yes. any example ? gist ? snippet? thks