I added to your Session code in order to support this. I use a Proxy with apache that allows queries to CouchDb over port 80 but requires basic http authentication. Its trivial given the use of commons-http-client but see attached...works for me. Hope it helps.

Works for me...

I was wondering how people were planning on doing auth with CouchDB. Proxied connections seems a little over the top (I'd like to see it built-in to CouchDB itself), but it sounds like a good solution. I'll add the code.