Re: Using OPTIONS for optional feature discovery -- advice

Julian Reschke wrote:
> >Just curious - does anyone know of OPTIONS being used "in the wild" at all?
> >If so, how?
> 
> OPTIONS is used quite heavily by WebDAV clients for feature discovery. 
> They usually use both the Allow header and the DAV-specific "Dav" header 
> (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2518.html#HEADER_DAV>).

OPTIONS is also used in principle for "Upgrading to TLS Within
HTTP/1.1" (RFC2817).  I don't know if it's actually deployed.

-- Jamie