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authorGiampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola@gmail.com>2014-06-11 01:54:30 (GMT)
committerGiampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola@gmail.com>2014-06-11 01:54:30 (GMT)
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fix issue #17552: add socket.sendfile() method allowing to send a file over a socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'ยท
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@@ -789,6 +789,9 @@ SSL sockets provide the following methods of :ref:`socket-objects`:
(but passing a non-zero ``flags`` argument is not allowed)
- :meth:`~socket.socket.send()`, :meth:`~socket.socket.sendall()` (with
the same limitation)
+- :meth:`~socket.socket.sendfile()` (but :mod:`os.sendfile` will be used
+ for plain-text sockets only, else :meth:`~socket.socket.send()` will be used)
+ .. versionadded:: 3.5
- :meth:`~socket.socket.shutdown()`
However, since the SSL (and TLS) protocol has its own framing atop