title: Listing active replications in couchdb 1.1.0
body: <p>I am bootstraping replications in couchdb by POSTing to localhost:5984/_replicate. This URL only accepts POST requests.</p>
  
  <p>There is also a second URL: localhost:5984/_replicator, which accepts PUT, GET and DELETE requests.</p>
  
  <p>When I configure a replication POSTing to _replicate, it gets started, but I can not get information about it. It is also not listed in _replicator.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>How can I get the list of active replications?</li>
  <li>How can I cancel an active replication?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Edit: how to trigger replications with the <code>_replicator</code> method.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks to comments by JasonSmith, I got to the following solution: PUTting to <code>_replicator</code> requires using full url (including authentictation credentials) for the target database. This is not the case when using the <code>_replicate</code> url, which is happy getting just the name of the target database (I am talking here about pull replications). The reason, as far as I can tell, is explained <a href="https://gist.github.com/832610" rel="nofollow">here</a> (see section 8, "The user_ctx property and delegations")</p>