[rabbitmq-discuss] Binding routing key to queue on default exchange

[Matthew Sackman]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:09:12PM +0200, Irmo Manie wrote:
> If you declare a queue, there is an automatic binding where the queue
> name is used as the routing key.
> Now I want to bind a different routing key to that same queue name
> without specifying an exchange name, which according to the specs
> should be possible correct?

Nope. See http://dev.rabbitmq.com/wiki/Amqp091Errata#section_14

> With the 1.8.0 server this was possible, but with the latest 2.1.1 I
> get an access_refused back.

Yes, we corrected the behaviour! The default exchange is an exchange
that can only be used for publishing messages to. All other actions on
it are refused.

Matthew