Sadly options request is necessary for browsers to assert whether or not
the result of a request should be exposed to caller, isn't it?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 17:47 Tom Jordahl <tjord...@adobe.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hello Devs,
>
> In our environment we run security scanning tools.  They flag any HTTP
> port that supports the OPTIONS method as a problem:
>   “Web servers that respond to the OPTIONS HTTP method expose what other
> methods are supported by the web server, allowing attackers to narrow and
> intensify their efforts.”
>
> I don’t see Qpid having any need to support this method, so I have filed a
> bug with a patch that blocks the OPTIONS method:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-8552. I would love to have
> this patch in the next 8.x release of Broker-J.
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Tom
>

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