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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2008-11-16 18:33:53 (GMT)
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@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The module provides the following classes:
server. It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port
number. If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host
string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is
- used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
+ used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* (which defaults to a false
+ value) causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
be raised if the status line can't be parsed as a valid HTTP/1.0 or 1.1
status line. If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking
operations (like connection attempts) will timeout after that many seconds