Thomas Reinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Note - this test also generated a fair number of false
> positives in the past (was that fixed?) due to IIS servers
> that had the PUT/DELETE methods respond as if they were
> a GET request.  Perhaps qualys is running afoul of that?

Well, there were not *exactly* false positive. The message said that
the PUT and/or DELETE method were enabled and that it was safer to
disable it. The problem is that you cannot do this with IIS: it just
rely on the access control system to reject unauthenticated upload or
deletion with a 403 code.
You can enable back the old behaviour by setting "integrist test".
(the comment in http_methods.nasl explains this)

> Try contacting the server and issuing the request
> DELETE /index.html HTTP/1.0
> (but only if its YOUR server) and see what it responds
> back with.

Another way is to run the Nessus test and look at what is happening
with a good sniffer (Ethereal)
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