You are not using the right host name. This should work:
curl https://myuser:mysecret@myuser.cloudant.com/animalsdb/kangaroo
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?
La solution
You are not using the right host name. This should work:
curl https://myuser:mysecret@myuser.cloudant.com/animalsdb/kangaroo