Respond to HTTP OPTIONS with basic auth

http microsoft-office http-basic-authentication iis-6

Is the draconian approach of just denying the OPTIONS verb in IIS globally a possibility? You could install URLScan and put OPTIONS in the [DenyVerbs] configuration.

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