From 7cd6f8086c9c3d8e20b3cc2301c927e8216d7d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Jagielski Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:08:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note that TRACE is not a vuln git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1302855 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/mod/core.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml index f8147140cf..852e62174a 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml @@ -4201,6 +4201,13 @@ certain events before failing a request Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used). The core will reflect the full headers and all chunk headers with the response body. As a proxy server, the request body is not restricted to 64k.

+ + Note +

Despite claims to the contrary, TRACE is not + a security vulnerability and there is no viable reason for + it to be disabled. Doing so necessarily makes your server + non-compliant.

+
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