- From: Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:02:02 -0400
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP working group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 03:42, Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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. That mechanism is used by many IPP printers for the secure mode. -- Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>
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