Filtering out some requests before they hit Rails

Rails
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I get lots of stuff in my logs like:
ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod (PROPFIND, accepted HTTP methods
are get, head, put, post, delete, and options):

I’d like to reject this stuff before it hits rails and clogs passenger
and then the error log.

How can I make Apache reject some urls/requests before passing them on
to Rails.

I’m sure I can stick something in .htaccess with mod_rewrite or
something but I dont want to do it by trail and error if there is a
good recipe somewhere.

It wont get all of them but I get hundreds of attempts at /
manager.html and /phppgadmin and stuff like that that fills the rails
log and obscures more valuable log entries.

Cheers
George

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giorgio <george.peverell@…> writes:

Sounds like a good job for a Rack filter. Something like:

config.middleware.use ‘HttpVerbResponder’,
‘PROPFIND’ => [404, {}, ‘Not supported’],
‘PURGE’ => [404, {}, ‘Not supported’],
‘OPTIONS’ => [200, {“Access-Control-Allow-Origin” => “*”,
“Access-Control-
Max-Age” => ‘1000’},'OK"]

class HttpVerbResponder
def initialize(app, options={})
@app = app
@options = options
end

def call(env, options={})
if response = @options[env[‘REQUEST_METHOD’]]
response
else
@app.call(env)
end
end
end

From:

profind-purge-options-etc/