Re: mod_allowmethods experimental?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM Daniel Ferradal Márquez
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> The other day I was checking CIS benchmark regarding apache httpd.
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> Among some other old-fashioned recommendations I see they still
> recommend dated directives like Limit or LimitExcept over
> mod_allowmethods AllowMethods directive which they refer to secondarily
> and as "experimental".
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> Checking the docs, it still says Status: Experimental in:
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_allowmethods.html as well as
> in trunk: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_allowmethods.html
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> Is there a reason why it is stil refered to as experimental in the docs
> and not just plainly the actual recommendation to set allowed methods in
> Apache HTTPD actually?

I agree we should drop experimental from it, any reasons to keep it?