diff --git a/lib/couch-proxy.js b/lib/couch-proxy.js
index 793a790..c66eb40 100644
--- a/lib/couch-proxy.js
+++ b/lib/couch-proxy.js
@@ -12,6 +12,24 @@ var restify = require('restify');
 var request = require('request');
 var url = require('url');
 
+exports.proxy = function(options) {
+  options = options || {};
+
+  var couch = request.defaults({ auth: options.auth });
+
+  function proxy(req, res) {
+    console.log(req.method, url.resolve(options.url, req.url));
+    req.pipe(couch(url.resolve(options.url, req.url), {
+      method: req.method,
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': req.header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
+      }
+    })).pipe(res);
+  }
+
+  return proxy;
+};
+
 exports.listen = function(options, fn) {
   options = options || {};
   options.port = options.port || 80;
@@ -19,15 +37,17 @@ exports.listen = function(options, fn) {
   options.auth = options.auth || {};
 
   var server = restify.createServer();
-  var couch = request.defaults({ auth: options.auth });
 
-  server.get('/', function(req, res) {
-    res.send('hello, I am a couch proxy! ');
-  });
+  server.use(exports.proxy({
+    url: options.url,
+    auth: options.auth
+  }));
 
-  server.get(/^\/couch\/(.*)$/, function(req, res) {
-    console.log('GET ' + req.params[0]);
-    couch.get(url.resolve(options.url, req.params[0])).pipe(res);
+  // hacky hack for the lack of `all`
+  ['del', 'get', 'head', 'opts', 'post', 'put', 'patch'].forEach(function(verb) {
+    server[verb]('.*', function(req, res) {
+      res.send('hello, I am a couch proxy!');
+    });
   });
 
   server.listen(options.port, fn);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 7abce6c..3c38a9d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "couch-proxy-experiment",
   "description": "This is an experiment of how you can build a CouchDB proxy on top of restify.",
-  "version": "0.1.0-10",
+  "version": "0.1.0-11",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/null2/couch-proxy-experiment",
   "author": {
     "name": "Johannes J. Schmidt",