Re: mod_cgi/4490: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests

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Synopsis: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests

State-Changed-From-To: open-suspended
State-Changed-By: coar
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun  2 06:57:12 PDT 1999
State-Changed-Why:

As the comment in the source remarks, very few CGI scripts
will respond correctly to an OPTIONS request.  The current
draft of the CGI/1.1 spec allows the server to intercept
this method (see <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/CGI/>).  This
would have to be selectably controllable (i.e., would need
a directive to enable/disable it for specific scopes) to
keep unaware scripts from responding incorrectly.  I'm
marking this as suspended so it won't be forgotten, even
though it's on the list for the next major release cycle.

Severity-Changed-From-To: critical-non-critical
Severity-Changed-By: coar
Severity-Changed-When: Wed Jun  2 06:57:12 PDT 1999