Java embedded jetty is accepting HTTP TRACE method

Question

I'm trying to disable HTTP TRACE method in embedded Jetty. In Jetty doc's is info that HTTP trace is disabled by default, but for embedded it is still enabled. I was trying to disable trace as a security constraint as is done in jetty.xml.

    ServletContextHandler servletHandler = new ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS | ServletContextHandler.SECURITY);
    servletHandler.setClassLoader(Server.class.getClassLoader());
    servletHandler.setContextPath("/");
    servletHandler.addEventListener(new ContextLoaderListener());
    servletHandler.addServlet(new ServletHolder(new CXFServlet()), "/*");
    servletHandler.setInitParameter("contextClass", AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext.class.getName());
    servletHandler.setInitParameter("contextConfigLocation", BeansConfig.class.getName());
    servletHandler.setInitParameter("javax.ws.rs.Application", DispatcherConfig.class.getName());

     /*
     * <security-constraint>
     * <web-resource-collection>
     * <web-resource-name>Disable TRACE</web-resource-name>
     * <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
     * <http-method>TRACE</http-method>
     * </web-resource-collection>
     * <auth-constraint/>
     * </security-constraint>
     */
     Constraint constraint = new Constraint();
     constraint.setName("Disable TRACE");

     ConstraintMapping mapping = new ConstraintMapping();
     mapping.setConstraint(constraint);
     mapping.setMethod("TRACE");
     mapping.setPathSpec("/"); // this did not work same this mapping.setPathSpec("/*");

     ConstraintSecurityHandler securityHandler = (ConstraintSecurityHandler) servletHandler.getSecurityHandler();
     securityHandler.addConstraintMapping(mapping);

Example output from soapUI:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: message/http
Content-Length: 143
Server: Jetty(9.0.6.v20130930)

TRACE / HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)
Host: 192.168.33.115
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Answer 1

Extending the Server class and overriding the handle() method worked best for me.

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;

public class MyServer extends Server {

    @Override
    public void handle(HttpChannel<?> connection) throws IOException, ServletException {
        Request request=connection.getRequest();
        Response response=connection.getResponse();

        if ("TRACE".equals(request.getMethod())){
            request.setHandled(true);
            response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
        } else {
            super.handle(connection);
        }
    }
}