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Comment by deweller | Hacker News Reader

I think it is pretty cool that http://couch.io/ is a website served directly by CouchDB.

Server: CouchDB/0.12.0ab71f475-git (Erlang OTP/R13B)

$ telnet couch.io 80 Trying 80.244.253.216... Connected to couch.io. Escape character is '^]'. GET /get HTTP 1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:28:23 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-1+lenny8 Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

<html> <head> <title>Unknown Domain</title> </head>

  <body>

The Domain "" is not available on this server.

  </body>

</html> Connection closed by foreign host.

HTTP/1.1 is essential for conserving our dwindling IPv4 address space, so I think it's reasonable for servers to require it.

Doesn't wget still use HTTP/1.0?

Apparently they added Host headers and keepalive, even though it's not a fully conforming HTTP/1.1 client. Makes me wonder how many servers out there accept Host headers from HTTP/1.0 clients.

http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions?actio...

According to the response headers, it's about 50/50 Apache and CouchDB depending on the resource.

It's a pure CouchApp served behind Apache httpd for technical reasons. The site proper is run in/from CouchDB, Apache is merely used for virtual hosting and caching. We are transitioning to a pure-CouchDB setup now that CouchDB can do virtual hosts itself.

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