I am a couchDB newbie and am doing the examples in the O'Reilly CouchDB guide.

I have a problem using a view to retrieve a document by key:

curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic/_design/example/_view/by_date?key="2009/01/15 15:52:20"

gives the reply:

curl: (52) Empty reply from server

but just retrieving all rows:

curl http://127.0.0.1:5984/basic/_design/example/_view/by_date

gives me 3 rows including the specific row I am looking for:

{"id":"hello-world","key":"2009/01/15 15:52:20","value":"Hello World"}

why doesn't the key query work?

I am using CouchDB version 0.10.0 on Ubuntu 9.10