title: Disable HTTP TRACE METHOD Functionality In Oracle IPlanet Webserver
body: <p>there was a requirement for me in my project which runs over Oracle iPlanet webserver. as per security concern, we had to disable the HTTP TRACE METHOD after digging and googling over I found Solution which is as follows</p>
  
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  <li>goto <code>&lt;iplanet-home-dir&gt;/&lt;server-instance-name&gt;/config</code></li>
  <li>you will find some files like <code>obj.conf</code> and <code>&lt;server-instance-name&gt;-obj.conf</code></li>
  <li>ignore <code>obj.conf</code> i also got confuse, when i started googling everyone said that we need to modify in obj.conf but it is wrong way of disabling it. i tried but had no luck.</li>
  <li>open <code>&lt;server-instance-name&gt;-obj.conf</code> file you will find content like below</li>
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  <li><p>command to test in this cas i am taking curl utility since most of the hacker uses this to download web content data.</p>
  
  <p>curl -i -s -k -X 'TRACE' -L <a href="http://mahboob.ali.com:56100" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mahboob.ali.com:56100</a></p></li>
  <li>you will see the following output</li>
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