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How to protect my account from TRACE request attacks?

Last update: Feb 06, 2020

To protect your account from HTTP TRACE request attacks, add the following rule to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
RewriteRule .* - [F]

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