Thanks markt-2. The idea of using a ServletFilter is a good one but will not
work because the application (we've inherited) does not have a single entry
point (dispatch/front-controller) yuck. So I'd have to patch it several
places.

What I wound up doing was making a little custom valve (HttpMethodValve) and
added it to the Engine in our server.xml. The valve allows only the methods
specified (see allow=""), gives a 403 otherwise, and reports only the
allow(ed) methods in response to OPTIONS. Dropped this little jar in
tomcat/lib and rock-n-roll.

        <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
            <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" ...... 
/>
            <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.HttpMethodValve"
allow="GET,POST,OPTIONS"/>
            <Host name="localhost"
                    ....
                    />
        </Engine>


markt-2 wrote:
> 
> joeweder wrote:
>> I have PUTs disabled but they are still being published as supported in
>> response to the OPTIONS method.
> 
> Which is correct as per the HTTP spec.
> 
>> Allow: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS
>> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
>> 
>> Actually doing a PUT returns a 403. But "in-house" security scanner just
>> looks at response from the OPTIONS method. 
> 
> Then your security scanner needs to be fixed.
> 
>> Is there any way to get Tomcat 6 from responding to the OPTIONS that it
>> supports the PUT?
> 
> You would need to provide your own DefaultServlet implementation. You
> should be
> able to take Tomcat's and override the appropriate method.
> 
> Alternatively, you should be able to achieve the same effect with a Filter
> and a
> wrapped response.
> 
> Mark
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