Disable OPTIONS HTTP on Apache Server
<pre><code>Request:
OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
Host: webcat.staci.com
Connection: Keep-alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.21
Accept: */*

Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:24:59 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=7, max=95
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: httpd/unix-directory
Set-Cookie: BIGipServerwebcat-ssl=192938503.47873.0000; path=/; httponly; secure
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<p>i want to disable HTTP OPTIONS on my Apache Server but i want to keep <code>GET</code>, <code>POST</code> and i want to <code>PING</code> my server.</p>

<p>how could I do that ?</p>

<p><strong><em>my httpd.conf:</em></strong></p>

<pre><code>RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^ (GET,POST,HEAD)
RewriteRule .* – [R=405,L]
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