From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:04:28 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: issue12039 - update the documentation of send_response method in http.server.rst.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.0a1~2309
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cc99528d872e0f8a87a762a990beb9e3755cbb42;p=python

issue12039 - update the documentation of send_response method in http.server.rst.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index e77e81d49d..17ea18a346 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -180,10 +180,17 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
    .. method:: send_response(code, message=None)
 
       Adds a response header to the headers buffer and logs the accepted
-      request. The HTTP response line is sent, followed by *Server* and
-      *Date* headers. The values for these two headers are picked up from
-      the :meth:`version_string` and :meth:`date_time_string` methods,
-      respectively.
+      request. The HTTP response line is written to the internal buffer,
+      followed by *Server* and *Date* headers. The values for these two headers
+      are picked up from the :meth:`version_string` and
+      :meth:`date_time_string` methods, respectively. If the server does not
+      intend to send any other headers using the :meth:`send_header` method,
+      then send_response should be followed by a :meth:`end_headers` call.
+
+      ..versionchanged:: 3.3
+      Writing of headers to internal buffer and need to call
+      :meth:`end_headers` explicitly.
+
 
    .. method:: send_header(keyword, value)