GET /_session

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Request
Response
Example

This request retrieves session information. Even though Couchbase Lite doesn’t support user logins, it implements a generic response to the _session API for compatibility with apps that might call it.

Request

Request headers

This request does not have any required headers.

Query parameters

This request does not use query parameters.

Message body

This request does not use a message body.

Response

Status codes

Response headers

This response uses only standard HTTP headers.

Message body

Example

The following example shows request for session information.

Request

GET /_session
Host: localhost:59840

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:34:56 GMT
Server: CouchbaseLite 1.486
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{
  "userCtx" : {
    "name" : null,
    "roles" : [
      "_admin"
    ]
  },
  "ok" : true
}