Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of stuart.wakefield@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.214.180 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=mime-version:reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type;
        b=XWDXVGlrBTAWS1uEbMgF7ceS67nXCuNNKab6nrA1W7iwCejZYFV13iaMcFy8gA4rhH
         g251b4G+qTcKEpn9lDPL0fqqWd7Kp5jwNBK9/2mjU3okMR+v8S5oyvr1qufXNy0fXHQ9
         t3fWA75xXDSUl2wtIEgnSMy205Y3qxaDrE9y0=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: stuart.wakefield@imperial.ac.uk
From: Stuart Wakefield <stuart.wakefield@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:18:43 +0100
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=NYj_ubCLgo7TztKNuaSL3rQYYhQ@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Encoded slash (%2F) in replication
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi

I have the same issue as was described in:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201003.mbox/%3C35959D90-96BB-4CA3-9014-282ED5C69CDD@compasspointtech.net%3E

Namely, I have couchdb behind an apache frontend. I need to be able to
replicate between that and another instance.

When the client starts replication it does a GET on a uri to couch
(and hence apache) like:

/dbname/_local%2Feb987f86f515044e9b8dc9c1b8bfd054

I don't have access to the apache configuration and it is configured
to return its default 404 response to any request which includes an
encoded slash (*). And as the default response is an html page couch
tries to decode this and promptly raises a decode error.

If i replace the "%2F" with a plain "/" then the command works.

>From a previous reply(**) i see advice to change apache configuration
so it allows urls of this form, however i am unable to do this as
apache isn't under my control.

Is this the use of an encoded slash a deliberate decision or is there
a plan to replace it with a plain one in a later version?

(*) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#allowencodedslashes
(**) http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201003.mbox/%3C055BFBA4-4298-4CCD-A52D-F4F86BA54BC7@apache.org%3E

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Stuart