Re: Server querying OPTIONS to itself?

Many thanks Eli!  The Apache wiki seems to imply that it connects to the 
last Listen entry, so I'll revise that...

Best
Ale

On 23/01/2026 06:37, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> Quoting
> https://serverfault.com/questions/543355/options-http-1-0-in-access-log
> ---
> These are internal dummy connections - see
> 
> Their appearance is due to your change of MPM from worker to prefork. You
> don't need to worry about them, but unless you have a reason to use prefork
> then you should probably be on worker.
> 
> ---
> HTH,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
> 
> Op wo 21 jan 2026 om 19:40 schreef Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Is there a reason why lots of these dummy connection are made?
>>
>> Best
>> Ale
>>
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 53226 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:44 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200 - "- [2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2]" "-"
>> "Apache/2.4.66 (Debian) SVN/1.14.5 OpenSSL/3.5.4 mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
>> mod_perl/2.0.13 Perl/v5.40.1 (internal dummy connection)" "-"
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 53238 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:45 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200 - "- [2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2]" "-"
>> "Apache/2.4.66 (Debian) SVN/1.14.5 OpenSSL/3.5.4 mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
>> mod_perl/2.0.13 Perl/v5.40.1 (internal dummy connection)" "-"
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 53244 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:46 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200 - "- [2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2]" "-"
>> "Apache/2.4.66 (Debian) SVN/1.14.5 OpenSSL/3.5.4 mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
>> mod_perl/2.0.13 Perl/v5.40.1 (internal dummy connection)" "-"
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 53256 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:47 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200 - "- [2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2]" "-"
>> "Apache/2.4.66 (Debian) SVN/1.14.5 OpenSSL/3.5.4 mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
>> mod_perl/2.0.13 Perl/v5.40.1 (internal dummy connection)" "-"
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 53270 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:48 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200 - "- [2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2]" "-"
>> "Apache/2.4.66 (Debian) SVN/1.14.5 OpenSSL/3.5.4 mod_apreq2-20101207/2.8.1
>> mod_perl/2.0.13 Perl/v5.40.1 (internal dummy connection)" "-"
>> 2a02:29e1:500:6c00::2 39754 - [21/Jan/2026:05:08:49 +0100] "OPTIONS *
>> HTTP/1.0" "/export/root/home/wmail/*" 200
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>>
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