- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:40:43 -0700
- To: Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP working group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
At Xythos we sometimes logged the traffic going to Sharemation (a WebDAV/Web server) and found a significant number of OPTIONS requests -- probably the most common after PROPFIND and GET. In researching my WebDAV book I found that Microsoft Office (using Network Places or the MSDAIPP agent) uses many OPTIONS requests to confirm that the server is reachable and supports WebDAV, before attempting to PROPFIND in some situations. Also, "cadaver" uses OPTIONS to detect WebDAV support and log the user in before attempting PROPFIND. There are partial traces of these interactions in chapter 8 of my book. Lisa On Apr 27, 2004, at 4:02 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > 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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