mod_access/4792: Can't configure clients to allow them to PUT, DELETE

[Bob Rohde <br...@rad.wfubmc.edu>]

>Number:         4792
>Category:       mod_access
>Synopsis:       Can't configure clients to allow them to PUT, DELETE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 29 10:40:00 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     br@rad.wfubmc.edu
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.6
>Environment:
SunOS 5.7 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW, Ultra-250
gcc 2.8.1
>Description:
I've only modified the httpd.conf and .htaccess files. In .htaccess, no matter
what settings I give the Limit directive a snoop trace between my client and
appache server produces:
PUT /users/br/roaming/WRITETEST HTTP/1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en]
Pragma: no-cache
Host: radmin.rad.wfubmc.edu
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
Content-Length: 1
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 17:04:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE
Connection: close
>How-To-Repeat:
I hope you can reproduce it. A key part of this seems to be Netscape Communicator.
I want to be able to use their "roaming profiles" feature to GET and PUT users
profiles on/from a web server. I've seen problems with Communicator in the past,
publishing html using http instead of ftp never has worked in Communicator. I've
created a folder off docroot, created a htpasswd file, created .htaccess in the
folder off docroot I want profiles to store in, and opened up perms on the folder.
>Fix:
I am out of ideas. This mail is the last act of a desparate man.
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