Gets the configuration structure for a single section. For example, to retrieve the CouchDB configuration section values:

GET http://couchdb:5984/_config/couchdb
Accept: application/json

The returned JSON contains just the configuration values for this section:

{
   "os_process_timeout" : "5000",
   "max_attachment_chunk_size" : "4294967296",
   "max_document_size" : "4294967296",
   "uri_file" : "/var/lib/couchdb/couch.uri",
   "max_dbs_open" : "100",
   "view_index_dir" : "/var/lib/couchdb",
   "util_driver_dir" : "/usr/lib64/couchdb/erlang/lib/couch-1.0.1/priv/lib",
   "database_dir" : "/var/lib/couchdb",
   "delayed_commits" : "true"
}