Errata

On page 35 in curl output there is:
< Server: CouchDB/0.9.0 (Erlang OTP/R12B)

But on page 36 it is already
< Server: CouchDB/0.10.1 (Erlang OTP/R13B)

Nothing serious, but still.

Here:
"Do you remember the Accept request header and how it is set to \*/\* -> */* to express interest in any MIME type?"
I'm pretty sure that \*/\* is nowhere to be found.

The command:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{}'

results in the following error:

{"error":"bad_content_type","reason":"Content-Type must be application/json"}

Should be this instead:

curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic -d '{}'

The function described in the Query Parameter example code on page 79 has the 'req' and 'doc' parameters backwards. It should be function(doc, req) { ... }

Small error, but confusing if you start with that code. :)

http://127.0.0.1:5984/blog/_design/sofa/_show/edit
should be
http://127.0.0.1:5984/blogdb/_design/sofa/_show/edit

This is a minor mistake that can cost some time, especially since the following sentence contains
"all we have to do is wire up CouchDB..."
it's not clear that the error returned by the mis-typed url ({"error":"not_found","reason":"no_db_file"}) is even an error. I kept wondering how the ensuing snippets in the book all worked together to point the app to the right db file!