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OPTIOS is the most boring HTTP method — which is exactly why it’s dangerous to ignore.

It’s not there for business logic.
It’s there so clients, browsers, and proxies can ask:
“What are you willing to do here?”

When a valid OPTIONS request returns 400 Bad Request, the API isn’t being strict.
It’s being non-compliant.

This usually shows up as:

  • broken CORS preflight requests
  • clients guessing allowed methods
  • inconsistent gateway or proxy behavior

Nothing is “hacked”.
Things just quietly stop working.

If your API speaks HTTP and calls itself REST-ish, OPTIONS handling is not optional.
You don’t need business logic — just correct capability responses:
200 OK or 204 No Content with an Allow header.

Full write-up here:
https://rentgen.io/api-stories/options-method-handling.html

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