From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:56:19 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Address issue 18229 - Explain http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler's .headers attribute... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~60
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cad2bf20c3c790cd3535742a46d5b116e07b7f43;p=python

Address issue 18229 - Explain http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler's .headers attribute further.

Initial patch by Caelyn McAulay.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index dd19fb4bfb..0d8e7fe6c7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
 
       Holds an instance of the class specified by the :attr:`MessageClass` class
       variable. This instance parses and manages the headers in the HTTP
-      request.
+      request. The :func:`~http.client.parse_headers` function from
+      :mod:`http.client` is used to parse the headers and it requires that the
+      HTTP request provide a valid :rfc:`2822` style header.
+
 
    .. attribute:: rfile