cloudant/bigcouch — comment on commit 9c1d6798e56d95a9ec6ad36c7baf7c3d23ce5eff
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By bdionne:

it probably is belt and suspenders, and an artifact from trying to fix it in full_url, which would be preferable as there are a few other paths thru that code. There's a couple of bugs also in _replicator db so we can revisit it when we fix those.