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| author | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2003-02-03 15:21:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> | 2003-02-03 15:21:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 8ca202e39595c2080e3648799f5821122b4c4e4c (patch) | |
| tree | ece931b0102ca0d0b825f4221e0d354d55ecd2e8 /Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py | |
| parent | 9a0db07c2ffd4e4b3ae75d5820dc6b4152b3582b (diff) | |
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Bug #676273: Rewrite paragraph in module docstring
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py b/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py index 2e7bb3f..69d417a 100644 --- a/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py +++ b/Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py @@ -132,11 +132,11 @@ class BaseHTTPRequestHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler): <path> is encoded using the URL encoding scheme (using %xx to signify the ASCII character with hex code xx). - The protocol is vague about whether lines are separated by LF - characters or by CRLF pairs -- for compatibility with the widest - range of clients, both should be accepted. Similarly, whitespace - in the request line should be treated sensibly (allowing multiple - spaces between components and allowing trailing whitespace). + The specification specifies that lines are separated by CRLF but + for compatibility with the widest range of clients recommends + servers also handle LF. Similarly, whitespace in the request line + is treated sensibly (allowing multiple spaces between components + and allowing trailing whitespace). Similarly, for output, lines ought to be separated by CRLF pairs but most clients grok LF characters just fine. |