Error while calling CouchDB from curl with multiple keys

Question

When I try to do a Couchdb query with curl, I get this error:

curl: (3) [globbing] illegal character in range specification at pos 100

My query looks like this:

curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/db/_design/records/_view/query?key=\[\"abc.com\",\"215.211.211.211\"\]

My view function is:

function(doc) {
    emit([doc.domain, doc.ip])
}

What could be the mistake?

smathy · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-26 04:50:43Z

1

You need to url encode your query params, so %22 for " etc.

answered Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50

smathy

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4 Comments

You mean like this: curl -X GET http: //localhost:5984/db/_design/records/_view/query?key=[%22abc.com%22,%22215.211.211.211%22] ...?

Basically every non alphanumeric needs to be encoded, here's a google result I got for "url encoding"

Why, oh why @smathy? That really hurt. Linking to w3schools is just ... oy!

I've never understood the w3schools hate - I think they do a decent job in their market. But really I just picked the first google result.