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authorSenthil Kumaran <skumaran@gatech.edu>2018-10-26 17:12:29 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-10-26 17:12:29 (GMT)
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[3.6] - bpo-34576 : Backport eeab510 3.6 (GH-10113)
* bpo-34576 - Fix the formatting for security considerations in http.server.rst (GH-10005) (cherry picked from commit eeab510bb7e51802c18b3770cbb23ae0ca91da6b)
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This module defines classes for implementing HTTP servers (Web servers).
+.. warning::
+
+ :mod:`http.server` is not recommended for production. It only implements
+ only basic security checks.
+
One class, :class:`HTTPServer`, is a :class:`socketserver.TCPServer` subclass.
It creates and listens at the HTTP socket, dispatching the requests to a
handler. Code to create and run the server looks like this::