Enable the use of an unencoded slash in the URL of design documents. Closes COUCHDB-49. Thanks to Paul Davis for the patch.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk@663055 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index e05741f0..f5270508 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ changes. A list of these people is included below.
  * Chris Anderson <jchris@grabb.it>
  * William Beh <willbeh@gmail.com>
  * Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
+ * Paul Joseph Davis <paul.joseph.davis@gmail.com>
  * Till Klampaeckel <till@klampaeckel.de>
  * Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
  * Jim Lindley <web@jimlindley.com>
diff --git a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
index 27bc385c..d22ea2b1 100644
--- a/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
+++ b/src/couchdb/couch_httpd.erl
@@ -432,6 +432,12 @@ handle_db_request(_Req, _Method, {_DbName, _Db, ["_temp_view"]}) ->
 
 % Document request handlers
 
+handle_db_request(Req, Method, {DbName, Db, ["_design", DesignName]}) ->
+    % Special case to enable using an unencoded in the URL of design docs, as
+    % slashes in document IDs must otherwise be URL encoded
+    DocId = mochiweb_util:join(["_design", DesignName], "/"),
+    handle_db_request(Req, Method, {DbName, Db, [DocId]});
+
 handle_db_request(Req, Method, {DbName, Db, [DocId]}) ->
     UnquotedDocId = mochiweb_util:unquote(DocId),
     handle_doc_request(Req, Method, DbName, Db, UnquotedDocId);