On Thursday 08 November 2012, Nick Kew wrote: > > I intended to add a directive to easily register custom methods > > (i.e. call ap_method_register()). Do you think there is reason > > to allow arbitrary methods, and not just a configured list of > > allowed ones? > > If methods are to be actively checked, a module needs an API to > register a method with the checker.
ap_method_register() already exists (probably since 2.0). AFAICS, modules that handle custom methods internally already have to use it. > A configuration option might > still be required for backends (e.g. proxy or CGI) but would > perhaps be secondary? Still, that was the case I was talking about. I have checked that CGI forwards the method without checking. But i expect that proxy and e.g. mod_fcgid do that, too.
