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Is there any protocol use the options header ?
I want to use options header to take some data while transfer, so I want to check if there any protocol use the options header. Or I will occupy the header.
There are any number of protocols which might or could use IPv4 options. None of them are in normal, common use. I’ve certainly used record-route a time or two, and there are any number of RFCs describing usages and experiments. http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip.htm#Options
There are no IPv6 options in the actual ipv6 header because of the “Next Header” functionality, which allows you to insert arbitrary headers in the packet. So the record-route option I mentioned for IPv4 as a user of IPv4 options would be a header of its own. Be sure to carefully read the document on the selection of the protocol number since that controls what happens when people parse the packet.