On Tuesday 15 January 2002 12:06 pm, joshua goldfarb wrote:
> It seems that the DELETE method is enabled on your web server
> This is only present on a few of the servers. 

If those machines are IIS, that plugin is most likely not a false positive. 
Here is a quick qay to test manually:

1. Telnet to port 80 on your web server
2. Send the following request

OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1<crlf>
Host: www.somesite.com<crlf>
<crlf>
<crlf>

<crlf> is the standard carriage return + line feed - what you send when you 
hit Enter in the telnet client. 

Look at the response back, is there an Allow: header which contains the 
DELETE string?  Try putting a file on the web server and deleting it.

1. Telnet to the web server on port 80
2. Send the following request:

DELETE /test_file.txt HTTP/1.1<crlf>
Host: www.somesite.com<crlf>
<crlf>
<crlf>

Now try bring up that file in your browser, does it still exist?

Hope this helped ,

-HD

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