I have following scenario:
PouchDB sends user login info into application server:
POST /api/login
{user:'test', password:'test'}
Application server authenticates into Sync Gateway:
POST /sync_gateway/_sessions/
Obtained Cookie is being returned to angular application:
"SyncGatewaySession=89498ca5a159ff086a3cb1da2370eb36249936x5"
Question is how to configure PouchDB to authenticate with that cookie.
Ive tried setting cookie header but no luck.
Will appreciate any tips.
Authentication via direct usage of the REST API somehow does not work for subsequent requests (I faced the same problem). Please make use of the pouchdb-authentication plugin. It works perfectly fine. Here's the link: https://github.com/nolanlawson/pouchdb-authentication
Try to set the "Authentication" header with encoded username and password combination instead of the cookie header. That should do the trick.
Use the admin REST API to create a sessoin, then pass the session in another header than Cookie and use nginx to pass the custom header as cookie to sync gateway, like this:
proxy_set_header Cookie "$cookie_SGSession";
