Jason Davies

Ely Service now runs on CouchDB. Things just got a little simpler: no more Django plus PostgreSQL plus Nginx. Casual Lofa: the World's fastest furniture Ely Service is, as J. Chris Anderson put it, “just a very ordinary-looking garage Web site”. It's a simple Web site, which I originally developed using Django. It consists of six pages, one of which has a contact form for sending emails. So ...

I’ve recently been working on an implementation of cookie-based authentication for CouchDB. This is important for pure CouchDB applications (couchapps), where browsers communicate directly with CouchDB. Currently browsers can be authenticated using HTTP basic auth but the popup login box can be disruptive and confusing for users. Implementation The cookie part itself was pretty straightforwa...