Say you have a reverse proxy server in front of your web server. If you do a trace to the reverse proxy server that would execute the trace on the web server revealing that information.
-MJ > -----Original Message----- > From: André Malo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RFC TRACE > > > * Johnson, Michael wrote: > > > I would guess some error message should be displayed. > Forbidden/ Method not > > allowed? > > By the nature of TRACE I don't see that it would make much > sense for an > origin server. > For a (mod_)proxy a 405 may be useful for security reasons. > > YMMV. > > nd > -- > my @japh = (sub{q~Just~},sub{q~Another~},sub{q~Perl~},sub{q~Hacker~}); > my $japh = q[sub japh { }]; print join ######################### > [ $japh =~ /{(.)}/] -> [0] => map $_ -> () # André Malo # > => @japh; # http://www.perlig.de/ # >
