On Mar 22, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Tom Evans wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Roy T. Fielding <[email protected]> wrote:
>> TRACE won't work at all if the most popular end-point doesn't support it.
>> 
>> If folks want to protect clients (including gateways) against their own
>> stupidity regarding what they choose to send in a TRACE request, then
>> do so by selectively removing some lines from the response and I will
>> try to update the standard accordingly.
>> 
>> Turning it off by default is not an option.  I will veto that.
>> 
>> ....Roy
> 
> How about providing a simpler way of turning it off, rather than
> turning it off by default? Arbitrarily, it seems, you can't use Limit
> or LimitExcept to restrict it, and instead have to use a RewriteRule.
> 

Simpler than 'TraceEnable off' ??

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