Teaching Mongrel other HTTP Methods (verbs)

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I'm trying to build a simple CalDav server in a Rails application but am running into a huge stumbling block. CalDav uses the HTTP protocol but has it's own set of methods -- for example, instead of GET it has a method called PROPFIND.

The problem is that Mongrel doesn't like those methods and gives me the following error:

"/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Sat Sep 27 02:09:15 -0700 2008   Status: 500 Internal Server Error   propfind, accepted HTTP methods are delete, head, get, options, post, and put"

Is there anyway to get around this and teach mongrel about the new methods?

Thanks, Jeremy

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After some digging, I think I found a solution. To enable the "PROPFIND" method I added this to the ApplicationController in application.rb:

ActionController::ACCEPTED_HTTP_METHODS.merge( [ "propfind" ] )

- Jeremy