Nginx returning 444 for PUT and DELETE

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I'm trying to build a REST API through Nginx and everything works fine except when I the requests are PUT or DELETE. In these cases, Nginx returns 444 (no response). I did some research and all I could find was something about Nginx being configured with the "–with-http_dav_module" option. I've checked that with nginx -V and and it seems that it was configured with this.

So, any idea what else could it be?

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I'm going to answer myself so this one as it might be useful for other absent-minded guys out there.

It seems that nginx config was including a "security" file which specifically denied (444) any request other than GET, POST or HEAD. I've removed that and everything is fine now.

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