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.. sectionauthor:: Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il>
The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines a request-handler class,
interface-compatible with :class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`, that
serves files only from a base directory.
The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines a single class,
:class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`, which is interface-compatible with
:class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`.
The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines the following class:
.. class:: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(request, client_address, server)
This class is used to serve files from the current directory and below, directly
This class serves files from the current directory and below, directly
mapping the directory structure to HTTP requests.
A lot of the work, such as parsing the request, is done by the base class
:class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`. This class implements the
:func:`do_GET` and :func:`do_HEAD` functions.
The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following member variables:
The following are defined as class-level attributes of
:class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`:
.. attribute:: server_version
This will be ``"SimpleHTTP/" + __version__``, where ``__version__`` is
defined in the module.
This will be ``"SimpleHTTP/" + __version__``, where ``__version__`` is
defined at the module level.
.. attribute:: extensions_map
A dictionary mapping suffixes into MIME types. The default is signified by
an empty string, and is considered to be ``application/octet-stream``. The
mapping is used case-insensitively, and so should contain only lower-cased
keys.
A dictionary mapping suffixes into MIME types. The default is
signified by an empty string, and is considered to be
``application/octet-stream``. The mapping is used case-insensitively,
and so should contain only lower-cased keys.
The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following methods:
The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class defines the following methods:
.. method:: do_HEAD()