Simulate sessions in CouchDB?

Question

I let CouchDB serve my Sproutcore application so there is no backend.

When the user logs in I want him to be remembered so he doesn't have to log in again.

With regular backend servers I used sessions for this.

Is there a way to simulate sessions in CouchDB?

If not, how do I make the application to remember him?

Answer 1

You can use cookies, basic HTTP auth and OAuth to validate (and other 3rd party methods) to keep users in a session. There is also an API call to retrieve the current session user. (_session) Refer to this page in the Wiki.