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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2014-04-16 17:56:19 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2014-04-16 17:56:19 (GMT)
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Address issue 18229 - Explain http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler's .headers attribute further.
Initial patch by Caelyn McAulay.
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@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
Holds an instance of the class specified by the :attr:`MessageClass` class
variable. This instance parses and manages the headers in the HTTP
- request.
+ request. The :func:`~http.client.parse_headers` function from
+ :mod:`http.client` is used to parse the headers and it requires that the
+ HTTP request provide a valid :rfc:`2822` style header.
+
.. attribute:: rfile