- From: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:08:58 -0500 (EST)
- To: "David W. Morris" <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: http working group <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, David W. Morris wrote: > It is my sense from list postings that a TRACE or OPTIONS request which > referenced a specific resource which a server handed to an external > application such as a CGI program should be handed to that program > for handling. > > That is: > OPTIONS /cgi-bin/somescript HTTP/1.1 > or > TRACE /cgi-bin/somescript HTTP/1.1 > should be handled by the application which would respond to a GET or HEAD > of the same resource. I would agree for OPTIONS, since it is probably the capabilities of the CGI or other sub-server that the requestor is interested in (although my experience has usually been that CGIs often respond as though the method were GET or POST because the authors don't check). I can't think of any reason why TRACE would require the participation of the resource - it's purpose is just to reflect the headers as received, and the server itself can do that just fine.
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