Does nginx support OPTIONS request method?

Server NGINX
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Hi guys,
I am trying to make a cross-domain ajax request. The problem comes when
i try to POST .
Then Firefox makes “preflighted” request to see if it is OK to go
ahead.
Here is the request :

OPTIONS /publish/?id=123 HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.1.2.50:8002
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8)
Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Origin: http://10.1.2.50
Access-Control-Request-Method: POST

and response :

HTTP/1.1 405 Not Allowed
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:11:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 173
Connection: keep-alive
Allow: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

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Hi,

and response :

HTTP/1.1 405 Not Allowed
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:11:52 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 173
Connection: keep-alive
Allow: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

This response didn’t come from nginx, but from your backend.

Best regards,
Piotr S. < [email protected] >

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I don’t think i understand what you say…
I don’t have any backend. This is clean nginx install( no fast-cgi or
what so ever) with http_push module.
Actually i am able to get the messages , but not post one.

All this works if i don’t use cross-domain requests (but then no OPTIONS
request is made).

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4

Hi,

I don’t think i understand what you say…

I’m saying that response you presented wasn’t send by nginx (core)
itself.

I don’t have any backend. This is clean nginx install( no fast-cgi or
what so ever) with http_push module.

This is very important information, that you didn’t bother to mention
earlier… And as it turns out, that response was produced by
nginx_http_push_module, so you should probably contact its author and
ask
him if your particular use case is supported (because it seems that this
module supports at least some OPTIONS requests).

Best regards,
Piotr S. < [email protected] >