From b839c1f33f842720e9592c4ef598688bed94266f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:02:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [Bug #866222] Update docstrings. --- Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py index d58bdc39372..d58f52fda0d 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 @@ def guess_type(self, path): 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.