Are the built-in HTTP servers production quality?

[Irmen de Jong]

Paul Morrow wrote:
> I've heard it said that web servers built upon the standard library's 
> SimpleHTTPServer or CGIHTTPServer aren't really suitable for use in a 
> production system.  Is this still the case?  And if so, why?

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

--Irmen