Re: how to send 405

Brian wrote:
> I have a form mail script (TFmail from NMS) that I'm testing on
Apache
> 2.0/WinXP; it will eventually go on an Apache 1.3/Linux server. The
> script works fine when form data is posted to it, but it throws a
script
> error if any other method is used. This is a (minor) problem if
someone
> bookmarks the "message sent" success page generated by the script, so
I
> wanted to prevent GET access to the script. Is there any way to
generate
> a 405 http error via .htaccess?
>
> A Google search of the web and this group showed only hits for trying
to
> avoid 405 errors on POST requests.

<LimitExcept POST>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>

Or just have your cgi script check the REQUEST_METHOD and error-out if
it isn't POST.

Joshua.

Joshua Slive wrote:

> Brian wrote:
>
>> I have a form mail script (TFmail from NMS)

>> it throws a script error if any other method is used.

>> I wanted to prevent GET access to the script. Is there any way to
>> generate a 405 http error via .htaccess?

> <LimitExcept POST>
> Order allow,deny
> Deny from all
> </LimitExcept>

Thanks for the idea. I tried this, but Apache returns 403, not 405. Not
exactly a mission critical thing, I know. But 403 is returned for other
resources, whereas 405 would be for just this situation, so the error
message could be more specific and more helpful.

> Or just have your cgi script check the REQUEST_METHOD and error-out
> if it isn't POST.

That may be the only way to go. It errors out on !POST, but the script's
error message is not very helpful. I was hoping to do better via Apache,
but there does not appear to be a way to generate 405 and serve up a
document via ErrorMessage.

Thanks for your time.

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