I can't get an external http handler to work

[Jarrod Roberson <ja...@vertigrated.com>]

following the example and instructions at
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses

here is what I get

{

   - error: "{{badarg,[{erlang,port_command, [#Port<0.2056>, [123,
   [34,<<"info">>,34], 58, [123, [34,"db_name",34], 58,
   [34,<<"transfer_central">>,34], 44, [34,"doc_count",34], 58,"39441",44,
   [34,"doc_del_count",34], 58,"0",44, [34,"update_seq",34], 58,"56508",44,
   [34,"purge_seq",34], 58,"0",44, [34,"compact_running",34],
   58,<<"false">>,44, [34,"disk_size",34], 58,"43593828",44,
   [34,"instance_start_time",34], 58, [34,<<"1272559979232820">>,34], 44,
   [34,"disk_format_version",34], 58,"5",125], 44, [34,<<"id">>,34],
   58,<<"null">>,44, [34,<<"method">>,34], 58, [34,"GET",34], 44,
   [34,<<"path">>,34], 58, [91, [34,<<"transfer_central">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"_test">>,34], 93], 44, [34,<<"query">>,34], 58,<<"{}">>,44,
   [34,<<"headers">>,34], 58, [123, [34,<<"Accept">>,34], 58, [34,
   <<"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json">>,
   34], 44, [34,<<"Accept-Charset">>,34], 58,
   [34,<<"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"Accept-Encoding">>,34], 58, [34,<<"gzip,deflate">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"Accept-Language">>,34], 58, [34,<<"en-us,en;q=0.5">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"Connection">>,34], 58, [34,<<"keep-alive">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"Host">>,34], 58, [34,<<"127.0.0.1:5984">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"Keep-Alive">>,34], 58, [34,<<"115">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"User-Agent">>,34], 58, [34, <<"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac
   OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3">>, 34], 125],
   44, [34,<<"body">>,34], 58, [34,"undefined",34], 44, [34,<<"peer">>,34], 58,
   [34,<<"127.0.0.1">>,34], 44, [34,<<"form">>,34], 58,<<"{}">>,44,
   [34,<<"cookie">>,34], 58,<<"{}">>,44, [34,<<"userCtx">>,34], 58, [123,
   [34,<<"db">>,34], 58, [34,<<"transfer_central">>,34], 44,
   [34,<<"name">>,34], 58,<<"null">>,44, [34,<<"roles">>,34], 58,<<"[]">>,125],
   125,10]]}, {couch_os_process,writeline,2}, {couch_os_process,writejson,2},
   {couch_os_process,handle_call,3}, {gen_server,handle_msg,5},
   {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}, {gen_server,call, [<0.110.0>,
   {prompt,{[{<<"info">>, {[{db_name,<<"transfer_central">>},
   {doc_count,39441}, {doc_del_count,0}, {update_seq,56508}, {purge_seq,0},
   {compact_running,false}, {disk_size,43593828},
   {instance_start_time,<<"1272559979232820">>}, {disk_format_version,5}]}},
   {<<"id">>,null}, {<<"method">>,'GET'},
   {<<"path">>,[<<"transfer_central">>,<<"_test">>]}, {<<"query">>,{[]}},
   {<<"headers">>, {[{<<"Accept">>,
   <<"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json">>},
   {<<"Accept-Charset">>, <<"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7">>},
   {<<"Accept-Encoding">>,<<"gzip,deflate">>},
   {<<"Accept-Language">>,<<"en-us,en;q=0.5">>},
   {<<"Connection">>,<<"keep-alive">>}, {<<"Host">>,<<"127.0.0.1:5984">>},
   {<<"Keep-Alive">>,<<"115">>}, {<<"User-Agent">>, <<"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
   U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401
   Firefox/3.6.3">>}]}}, {<<"body">>,undefined}, {<<"peer">>,<<"127.0.0.1">>},
   {<<"form">>,{[]}}, {<<"cookie">>,{[]}}, {<<"userCtx">>,
   {[{<<"db">>,<<"transfer_central">>}, {<<"name">>,null},
   {<<"roles">>,[]}]}}]}}, infinity]}}"
   - reason: "{gen_server,call, [<0.109.0>, {execute,{[{<<"info">>,
   {[{db_name,<<"transfer_central">>}, {doc_count,39441}, {doc_del_count,0},
   {update_seq,56508}, {purge_seq,0}, {compact_running,false},
   {disk_size,43593828}, {instance_start_time,<<"1272559979232820">>},
   {disk_format_version,5}]}}, {<<"id">>,null}, {<<"method">>,'GET'},
   {<<"path">>,[<<"transfer_central">>,<<"_test">>]}, {<<"query">>,{[]}},
   {<<"headers">>, {[{<<"Accept">>,
   <<"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8,application/json">>},
   {<<"Accept-Charset">>, <<"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7">>},
   {<<"Accept-Encoding">>,<<"gzip,deflate">>},
   {<<"Accept-Language">>,<<"en-us,en;q=0.5">>},
   {<<"Connection">>,<<"keep-alive">>}, {<<"Host">>,<<"127.0.0.1:5984">>},
   {<<"Keep-Alive">>,<<"115">>}, {<<"User-Agent">>, <<"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
   U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401
   Firefox/3.6.3">>}]}}, {<<"body">>,undefined}, {<<"peer">>,<<"127.0.0.1">>},
   {<<"form">>,{[]}}, {<<"cookie">>,{[]}}, {<<"userCtx">>,
   {[{<<"db">>,<<"transfer_central">>}, {<<"name">>,null},
   {<<"roles">>,[]}]}}]}}, infinity]}"

}

is this a permissions problem or something?

-- 
Jarrod Roberson