[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "Session_API" by JensAlfke

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The "Session_API" page has been changed by JensAlfke:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Session_API?action=diff&rev1=10&rev2=11

Comment:
Removed statement about using GET to create a session, as it's no longer true.

  {{{
    POST /_session
  }}}
+ with "name" and "password" fields. These can be sent either as JSON or the standard form data encoding; just be sure to set the Content-Type appropriately. (The latter format allows you to log in directly from a simple HTML form.)
- with "name" and "password" fields or a
- {{{
-   GET /_session
- }}}
- with (by default) a standard Basic Authorization header:
- {{{
-    Authorization: Basic <base64-encoded-username:password>
- }}}
  
  The username is the "name" field of a user's record in CouchDB's _users database.
  
  There is an optional "next" parameter that can be used to force a redirection after CouchDB processed a successful login.
  
- In case of success, the POST or GET /_session command will return a JSON value:
+ In case of success, the POST /_session command will return a JSON value:
  {{{
    {
      "ok": true,
@@ -120, +113 @@

  
  === Session Timeout ===
  
- The session timeout is specified by the "timeout" parameter in the "couch_httpd_auth" section of configuration.
+ The session timeout is specified by the "timeout" parameter in the "couch_httpd_auth" section of the configuration.
  If not specified it defaults to 600 seconds (10 minutes).