From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:02:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [Bug #866222] Update docstrings.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a3~358
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b839c1f33f842720e9592c4ef598688bed94266f;p=python

[Bug #866222] Update docstrings.
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diff --git a/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py b/Lib/SimpleHTTPServer.py
index d58bdc3937..d58f52fda0 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.