Re: mod_allowmethods experimental?

Am 10.04.26 um 02:51 schrieb Frank Gingras:
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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM Eric Covener <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM Daniel Ferradal Márquez
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > 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".
>      >
>      > Checking the docs, it still says Status: Experimental in:
>      > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_allowmethods.html
>     <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 <https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/
>     mod_allowmethods.html>
>      >
>      > 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?
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> Dropping it is the right move by now, yes.

+1 to dropping "experimental".

Best regards,

Rainer