rack-options-request

Have you seen exceptions like this before?

“ActionController::NotImplemented: Only requests are allowed.”

This is usually the result of a Microsoft product sending an OPTIONS request to your app with a user_agent of “Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery”. This middleware will stop those requests in their tracks, and keep them from hitting your rails stack.

TO USE with Rails 2.3:

in your environment.rb

require ‘rack/options/request’ then do a

config.middleware.use Rack::Options::Request

For more information, please read: rails.learnhub.com/lesson/2318-dealing-with-microsoft-office-protocol-discovery-in-rails

Until I learn TDD, you can test your local app with …

curl -X GET localhost:3000/

Should return your normal content.

While …

curl -X OPTIONS localhost:3000/

Should return a 200 status and “Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery”.

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Russell Jones. See LICENSE for details.