Can apache be configured to ignore OPTIONS requests?
I found a solution used by a different framework and ported to Django. I place this at the top of any view that generate HTML with links to .XLS or .DOC files:
if request.method == 'OPTIONS': response = HttpResponse() response['Allow'] = 'GET, HEAD, POST' return response
I like Apache solution better though... assuming it doesn't cause problems on the Windows side of things.