Ah! That is exactly what I was hoping for (skipping the JSON in/out cycle server-side). Keeping the HTTP protocol in this case is fine for me and not require a

Ah! That is exactly what I was hoping for (skipping the JSON in/out cycle server-side). Keeping the HTTP protocol in this case is fine for me and not require any unexpected changes to Couch. I hope that binary format work can be make configurable in the future with other formats supported. Thanks for the clarifications Tim.