Disable HTTP methods in Tomcat

Question

I have read these questions on disabling a list of methods in Tomcat:

• How can I disable HTTP Methods for Tomcat 5.5.27
• Disabling PUT TRACE DELETE request in Apache Tomcat 6.0

But is there a way to return a 405 response instead of a 403 response?

Answer 1

Build a servlet filter that checks the request method and sends a 405 response if the method is on a blacklist.