Question

I have a web app served by cherrypy. Within this app, I would like to fetch some data from a couchdb server, preferably using jquery. I am having trouble to authenticate into the server. When using:

$.couch.login({
    name: 'usename', 
    password: 'password', 
    success: function() {
        console.log('Ready!');
    }
});

It sends the login request to the cherrypy server, not the couchdb. According to this, I can use jquery.ajax settings and therefore I have tried using:

$.couch.login({
        url: 'http://127.0.0.1:5984',
    name: 'usename', 
    password: 'password', 
    success: function() {
        console.log('Ready!');
    }
    });

but it does not seem to work.
Any ideas? In addition, can anybody point me to good tutorial or simple web app developed in a similar fashion, i.e. a “standard” web page (not a couchapp), which contains jquery that gets info from couch.

Answer 1

What you are currently doing is telling jquery.couch.js to login against that url. (It needs to POST to /_session)

I believe you need to set up the urlPrefix property on $.couch.

$.couch.urlPrefix = "http://localhost:5984/"; // run this before anything else with $.couch