Send the following request to http://localhost:44968/_replicate {'source': 'bookmarks', 'target': { 'url': 'https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks', 'auth': { 'oauth': { 'consumer_secret': 'XXX', 'token': 'XXX', 'consumer_key': 'XXX', 'token_secret': 'XXX' } } } } Couch says the following: [Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:35:43 GMT] [info] [<0.6028.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - 'POST' /_replicate 401 [Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:35:44 GMT] [error] [<0.6032.0>] {error_report,<0.24.0>, {<0.6032.0>,crash_report, [[{initial_call,{couch_rep,init,['Argument__1']}}, {pid,<0.6032.0>}, {registered_name,[]}, {error_info, {exit, {db_not_found, <<"https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks/">>}, [{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}, {ancestors, [couch_rep_sup,couch_primary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.1.0>]}, {messages,[]}, {links,[<0.49.0>]}, {dictionary,[]}, {trap_exit,true}, {status,running}, {heap_size,4181}, {stack_size,24}, {reductions,5265}], []]}} but that database *does* exist: $ ./utilities/web_api_tool.py --url https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks/ {'update_seq': 0, 'disk_size': 79, 'purge_seq': 0, 'doc_count': 0, 'compact_running': False, 'db_name': 'u/3c5/9dc/21/bookmarks', 'doc_del_count': 0, 'instance_start_time': '1254482932364785', 'disk_format_version': 4} Debug log from localhost CouchDB: [Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:20:44 GMT] [debug] [<0.93.0>] DB at https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks/ could not be found because {ok, "401", [{"Date", "Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:20:44 GMT"}, {"Server", "CouchDB/0.10.0a (Erlang OTP/R13B)"}, {"WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"administrator\""}, {"Content-Type", "application/json"}, {"Content-Length", "61"}, {"Cache-Control", "must-revalidate"}, {"Via", "1.1 couchdb.one.ubuntu.com"}], []} [Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:20:44 GMT] [error] [<0.93.0>] {error_report,<0.24.0>, {<0.93.0>,crash_report, [[{initial_call,{couch_rep,init,['Argument__1']}}, {pid,<0.93.0>}, {registered_name,[]}, {error_info, {exit, {db_not_found, <<"https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks/">>}, [{gen_server,init_it,6},{proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}}, {ancestors, [couch_rep_sup,couch_primary_services,couch_server_sup,<0.1.0>]}, {messages,[]}, {links,[<0.49.0>]}, {dictionary,[]}, {trap_exit,true}, {status,running}, {heap_size,6765}, {stack_size,24}, {reductions,5207}], []]}} [Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:20:44 GMT] [debug] [<0.91.0>] httpd 404 error response: {"error":"db_not_found","reason":"could not open https://couchdb.one.ubuntu.com:443/u%2F3c5%2F9dc%2F21%2Fbookmarks/"}