Since nobody mentioned this one 'options' is just a way of asking the web server what HTTP Options (Get, post, put, delete, propfind, search, trace, etc) are allowed to that location...some will return more than one (iirc, iis with frontpage extensions will return public and private options), but most of the time you'll see it in the form of 'allow' (iirc). Some servers allow it and others don't, tried to show you the options for antionline, but it looks like it just displays the frontpage rather than trying to actually supply the allowed options (which isn't uncommon)...

EDIT: In response to Dice's post, there are other options that should raise your eyebrow other than PUT, especially if you allow them...my recommendation would be to use Apache to limit them to whatever is needed (probably only GET, maybe POST?)...

Use LimitExcept to do this... (be careful, you can toast your website quickly if you do this wrong )...

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod...ml#limitexcept