Apache:Disable the HTTP TRACE method
Description: How to disable the HTTP TRACE method on recent apache versions.
Most vulnerability scanners (like the popular nessus, but commercial ones also) will complain (normally as a low thread or warning level) about TRACE method being enabled on the web server tested.
Normally you will have this enabled by default, but if you want to test if it is really enabled on your server you just have to telnet on the port your web server is running and request for “TRACE / HTTP/1.0” if you get a positive reply it means TRACE is enabled on your system. The output of a server with TRACE enabled will look like: