Cloudant support of https://user:secret@cloudant.com

Question

I'm new to CouchDB but like I read here, it looks like CouchDB supports:

http://user:secret@127.0.0.1:5984

But when trying this at Cloudant:

curl https://myuser:mysecret@cloudant.com/animalsdb/kangaroo

I keep getting html for a 404 - Page not found. Is this not supported?

Answer 1

You are not using the right host name. This should work:

curl https://myuser:mysecret@myuser.cloudant.com/animalsdb/kangaroo