I have been reading some Interesting articles regarding hacking the servers with HTTP methods..

I found it interesting,

As far as to my knowledge i had heard there were only 8 http methods ,

but after reading this page


I found it really interesting,they had mentioned about the usage of arbitrary http methods ,so it made interested ,

here are my questions:

1) how can i MANUALLY find , what are the http methods are being supported by a web-server?
I tried net catting to the ports on some sites,but i didnt got the list of methods being supported by the web-servers .

how can i find this manually? because i do know that tools like accunteix and some other tools can do it,but i do want to do it manually so that i can get some knowledge about how it is being done ?

2)can you guys please explain me from your experience about
Arbitrary HTTP Methods ,i tought there were only 8 methods in http.i never heard about these,so i tought it would be nice to ask you guys..

3)is it possible to compromise a web-server with a UNKNOWN HTTP method or using a HTTP method other than the 8 traditional methods ?

4)first how a web-server supports the usage of a http methods other than the specified 8 methods in the rfc ?can any 1 explain me ?

5)Also i would like to know,how a web-site is explicitly checking for GET or POST methods?

Also how can we identify this manually?


Sorry guys,i think i had asked too much of questions,but as i don't have deep knowledge about these things,i tought it would be better to ask here, hope my doubts will be get cleared...