user@host:/var/www/test# curl -vX PUT -d "whatever=whatever" http://localhost/
* About to connect() to localhost port 80 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
> PUT / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.26.0
> Host: localhost
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 17
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
* upload completely sent off: 17 out of 17 bytes
* HTTP 1.1 or later with persistent connection, pipelining supported
< HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
< Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:38:18 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
< Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Length: 313
< Connection: close
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<
405 Method Not Allowed
Method Not Allowed
The requested method PUT is not allowed for the URL /put.php.
Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 80
* Closing connection #0