merge cascading auth patch by Jason Davies, closes COUCHDB-478, fix tests

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk@809134 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/share/www/script/couch.js b/share/www/script/couch.js
index e902a730..81e25f1b 100644
--- a/share/www/script/couch.js
+++ b/share/www/script/couch.js
@@ -324,7 +324,9 @@ CouchDB.createUser = function(username, password, email, roles, basicAuth) {
     }
   }
   var headers = {"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"};
-  if (!basicAuth) {
+  if (basicAuth) {
+    headers['Authorization'] = basicAuth
+  } else {
     headers['X-CouchDB-WWW-Authenticate'] = 'Cookie';
   }