[COUCHDB-3374] 500 instead of 401 when trying to create an index without authorization

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: HTTP Interface
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Hall
• Created: 13/Apr/17 23:57
• Updated: 02/Sep/18 07:07
• Resolved: 02/Sep/18 07:07

Description

To reproduce, try to create an index without authorization:

curl -v -X POST http://localhost:6001/new/_index -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"index":{"fields":["foo"]}}'

result:

< HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
< Cache-Control: must-revalidate
< Content-Length: 102
< Content-Type: application/json
< Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:56:09 GMT
< Server: CouchDB/2.0.0 (Erlang OTP/17)
< X-Couch-Request-ID: c404e0504a
< X-CouchDB-Body-Time: 0
<

{"error":"error_saving_ddoc","reason":"Unknown error while saving the design document: unauthorized"}