From: André Malo Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:37:22 +0000 (+0000) Subject: fix TraceEnable docs X-Git-Tag: 2.0.55~34 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35a1aebff9978a6164f313b01d1e3958d29363a5;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git fix TraceEnable docs git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x@290544 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml index 64ffde2a37d..60662e61020 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml @@ -2981,27 +2981,29 @@ certain events before failing a request TraceEnable -Name of the distributed configuration file +Determines the behaviour on TRACE +requests TraceEnable [on|off|extended] TraceEnable on -server config - +server config +Version 2.0.55 and later -

This directive overrides the behavior of TRACE for both - the core server and mod_proxy. The default TraceEnable - on permits TRACE requests per RFC 2616, which disallows - any request body to accompany the request. TraceEnable - off causes the core server and mod_proxy to return - a 405 FORBIDDEN error to the client.

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This directive overrides the behavior of TRACE for both + the core server and mod_proxy. The default + TraceEnable on permits TRACE requests per + RFC 2616, which disallows any request body to accompany the request. + TraceEnable off causes the core server and + mod_proxy to return a 405 (Method not + allowed) error to the client.

Finally, for testing and diagnostic purposes only, request bodies may be allowed using the non-compliant TraceEnable extended directive. The core (as an origin server) will restrict the request body to 64k (plus 8k for chunk headers if - Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used). The core will reflect the - full headers and all chunk headers with the request body. As a - proxy server, the request body is not restricted to 64k.

+ 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.