Hello,

ap_allow_methods actually doesn’t set method_number, method number is getting assigned by **ap_method_register()**. **ap_allow_methods()** resetting current **ap_method_list** that is initiated with standard methods, and adding MCMP methods only. so if we would remove **ap_allow_methods()**, **OPTIONS** call would return this:

```bash
romans-air:Net-MCMP winfinit$ curl -X OPTIONS http://127.0.0.1:6666 -v
* About to connect() to 127.0.0.1 port 6666 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7fc2da003a00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7fc2da003a00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 6666 (#0)
> OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: 127.0.0.1:6666
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:27:46 GMT
* Server Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8y mod_cluster/1.3.1.dev DAV/2 is not blacklisted
< Server: Apache/2.2.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.26 OpenSSL/0.9.8y mod_cluster/1.3.1.dev DAV/2
< Allow: GET,HEAD,OPTIONS,POST
< Content-Length: 0
< Content-Type: httpd/unix-directory
< 
* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
```
method_number is actually getting its value from **ap_method_number_of()** in _http_protocol.c_, which is getting its values from _**methods_registry**_.