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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py index d58bdc3..d58f52f 100644 --- a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py +++ b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py @@ -25,9 +25,8 @@ class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): """Simple HTTP request handler with GET and HEAD commands. This serves files from the current directory and any of its - subdirectories. It assumes that all files are plain text files - unless they have the extension ".html" in which case it assumes - they are HTML files. + subdirectories. The MIME type for files is determined by + calling the .guess_type() method. The GET and HEAD requests are identical except that the HEAD request omits the actual contents of the file. @@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): usable for a MIME Content-type header. The default implementation looks the file's extension - up in the table self.extensions_map, using text/plain + up in the table self.extensions_map, using application/octet-stream as a default; however it would be permissible (if slow) to look inside the data to make a better guess. |