http-options-method

Introduction I've read the following: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It's used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is surprisingly a relative unknown among some web developers. The HTTP verbs comprise a major portion of our “uniform interface” constraint and provide us the action counterpart to the noun-based resource. The primary or most-commonly-used HTTP verbs (or methods, as they are properly called) are POST, GET, PUT , and DELETE . Huh? Well, we came to the point I lost track of things. PUT and DELETE , they say. I've only

First off, I've read " How to handle HTTP OPTIONS with Spring MVC? " but the answers do not seem directly applicable to Spring Boot. It looks like I should do this: configure the dispatcherServlet by setting its dispatchOptionsRequest to true But how to do that , given that I have no XML configs, or any variety of DispatcherServlet initializer class in my code ( mentioned by this answer )? In a @RestController class, I have a method like this, which currently does not get invoked. @RequestMapping(value = "/foo", method = RequestMethod.OPTIONS) public ResponseEntity options(HttpServletResponse

I'd like to intercept the OPTIONS request with my controller using Spring MVC, but it is catched by the DispatcherServlet. How can I manage that? @RequestMapping(value="/youroptions", method=RequestMethod.OPTIONS) public View getOptions() { } You should configure the dispatcherServlet by setting its dispatchOptionsRequest to true MaVVamaldo I added some more detail to the Bozho answer for beginners. Sometimes it is useful to let the Spring Controller manage the OPTIONS request (for example to set the correct "Access-Control-Allow-*" header to serve an AJAX call). However, if you try the common