Question

We have a process submitting documents to couchdb. It works fine most of the time, but once in a while a design document will fail with

{"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a db or server admin."}

I am a bit stuck because I don’t know why 100 or so documents would succeed but then one would fail. The same document has successfully been uploaded before.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It turns out it was cookie related.

The cookies store in the client was being lost, because I was hosting it in an asp.net application. LoveSeat creates a new cookie store for every instance of CouchDatabase so either I needed to keep the CouchDatabase as a global or create a different cookies store (I did the later in the end).