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[3.5] bpo-30160: Clarify intended usage of wfile (gh-1300) (GH-1792)
authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>
Wed, 24 May 2017 21:11:21 +0000 (16:11 -0500)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>
Wed, 24 May 2017 21:11:21 +0000 (16:11 -0500)
The library does not enforce compliance with the HTTP protocol,
so violations are not technically disallowed. Extend the stream's
description to avoid suggesting that intentional protocol violations are
not supported.
(cherry picked from commit a083c8e)

Doc/library/http.server.rst

index ae7fb970de1ec4eaad4097cf59b8e403b02b1f7e..6e71c8a881118a6245a82213824884c9eb7c9838 100644 (file)
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
 
       Contains the output stream for writing a response back to the
       client. Proper adherence to the HTTP protocol must be used when writing to
-      this stream.
+      this stream in order to achieve successful interoperation with HTTP
+      clients.
 
    :class:`BaseHTTPRequestHandler` has the following attributes: