Are the built-in HTTP servers production quality?

[Paul Morrow]

Irmen de Jong wrote:
> 
> For starters, the SimpleHTTPServer reports the wrong Content-Length.
> See my patch at http://tinyurl.com/56frb
> 

Yes, something is wrong there.  I wonder though if it makes sense to 
continue to open text files in 'text' mode, so that the treatment of 
newlines is normalized, but then adjust the content-length to be the 
length of the (newline converted) string as read from the file.