[BaseHTTPServer/SimpleHTTPServer] Remove "Server:" header

Gary M. Josack gary at byoteki.com
Fri Oct 3 10:11:34 EDT 2008


you've got ?self.send_header('Server', self.version_string()) in the 
send_response method of the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class in the 
BaseHTTPServer module. Long story, short, it's going to be a lot of work 
to get rid of.

sebsauvage at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
>
> I'm using SimpleHTTPServer (work well) but it always sends "Server"
> header in response:
> "Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/2.5.1"
>
> How can I remove that ?
>
> I tried:
> self.server_version = ""
> self.sys_version  = ""
>
> but the header is still sent, empty.
>
> I there a way to remove the "Server:" header completely ?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
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