On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:14:48PM +1300, Ben Hoyt wrote:
> > Thats dangerous. But isn't that the duty of webserver?
> >
> 
> Yeah, I also wondered whether Apache would filter it out. But it doesn't,
> and on second thoughts, I don't think it is the duty of the web server,
> because there are loads of semi-custom HTTP methods, like the ones that
> webdav/svn uses, and people sometimes use their own custom ones, too. Here's
> a list of HTTP methods I found:
>     http://annevankesteren.nl/2007/10/http-methods
> 
> But I figure most people won't be using PROPFIND with web.py. And if they
> want to, they can always add it to valid_methods.


Option one: Apache limit by method.
Option two: by convention or standard, all HTTP methods are all caps.  Why
not simply filter out all methods that doen't start with a capital letter?
(or methods that are all capitals).

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