[ python-Bugs-1190580 ] SimpleHTTPServer sends wrong c-length and locks up client

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Bugs item #1190580, was opened at 2005-04-26 23:32
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Alexander Schremmer (alexanderweb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SimpleHTTPServer sends wrong c-length and locks up client

Initial Comment:
On windows, SimpleHTTPServer shows a severe bug: it 
sends a wrong content-length header. In fact, it sends 
the wrong data. It differentiates between the mime types 
"text/" and the remaining ones and decides upon that if it 
should open the file in binary mode.

That is illegal according to the RFCs, any text/ mimetype 
has to be served using \r\n line endings, therefore it may 
not read it in non-binary mode.

My suggestion: remove the disambiguation (that means 
the if block).

Umm, yeah, my initial reason to report this: if the 
content-length value is greater than the actual delivered 
data size, gateways/clients may lock up if they use 
pipelining. (And they do, BTDT). The reason for that 
wrong value: the filesize if determined before line end 
conversion (implicit because of non-binary read file mode)
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