From 8090e90cdf1fdc3512a73d0f7aee57d987d02e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sugat Bajracharya <sugatbajracharya49@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:02:12 +0545
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add note on how to obtain the session-token for
 session authentication

---
 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 937d1629..6acbc0e7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ CHT Conf supports authentication using a session token by adding `--session-toke
 
 	cht --url=https://example.com:12345 --session-token=*my_token* 
 
+_NOTE: the `token` can be obtained by doing a POST request to `/_session` endpoint with `username` and `password` as Form parameters. [More info](https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/api/server/authn.html#cookie-authentication)_
+
 ### Into an archive to be uploaded later
 
     cht --archive