title: Why does S3 CORS allow methods that I have not specified in the CORS configuration?
body: <p>Why does S3 allow me to PUT objects to the bucket using a PUT HTTP request despite only specifying a GET in allowed method?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;CORSConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"&gt;
  &lt;CORSRule&gt;
      &lt;AllowedOrigin&gt;*&lt;/AllowedOrigin&gt;
      &lt;AllowedMethod&gt;GET&lt;/AllowedMethod&gt;
      &lt;MaxAgeSeconds&gt;3000&lt;/MaxAgeSeconds&gt;
      &lt;AllowedHeader&gt;*&lt;/AllowedHeader&gt;
  &lt;/CORSRule&gt;
  &lt;/CORSConfiguration&gt;
  </code></pre>