Hello, We have been using Pound for a while in our production server handling
thousands of requests every day and it has been working admirably.

We recently wanted to add support for WebDAV HTTP methods like OPTIONS,
PROPFIND etc.

We were getting 501 errors when these calls were made. Since we were running an
old version of Pound, we decided to upgrade it. So we downloaded latest 2.5
source tarball from the pound site, compiled it and ran it and still get the
exact problem.

The log shows the following message:

Mar  2 22:51:24 pe2 pound: (4030b960) e501 bad request "OPTIONS
/app/web/share/small/ HTTP/1.1"

/usr/sbin/pound -V
starting...
Version 2.5
  Configuration switches:
    --enable-cert1l
Exiting...

The pound.cfg file looks like the following, We did add the xHTTP switch and
set it to 3.

## redirect all requests on port 8080 ("ListenHTTP") to the local webserver
(see "Service" below):
ListenHTTP
          Address 127.0.0.1
          Port    80
          xHTTP   3
          Service
              BackEnd
                  Address 127.0.0.1
                  Port    45000
              End
          End
      End

I am sure there is something really basic we are missing, so any pointers would
quite helpful.

Thanks,
M

> The pound.cfg file looks like the following, We did add the xHTTP switch
and set it to 3.[...]

The only thing different I have in my pound.cfg is:

         RewriteDestination 1

I'm still on 2.4.5, but that probably isn't the problem.  I'm using 
mod_dav_svn on the backend, are you using that or something else?

Regards,[...]

[...]
        RewriteDestination 1
[...]

Thanks Dave. We aren't using dav_svn but our own backend. What we are seeing is
that the request never reaches the backend in this case. It gets dropped.
The behaviour is almost as if the xHTTP setting is ignored.

Thanks,
M