From: Felipe Rodrigues Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 02:43:40 +0000 (-0300) Subject: bpo-34576 warn users on security for http.server (#9720) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~797 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d26c72e6a9c5b28b27c158f2f196217707dbb0f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-34576 warn users on security for http.server (#9720) It was proposed to add an warning for http.server regarding security issues. The wording was provided at bpo-26005 by @orsenthil --- diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst index 0bd7f778cec0..0b93c62288b1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ This module defines classes for implementing HTTP servers (Web servers). +Security Considerations +----------------------- + +http.server is meant for demo purposes and does not implement the stringent +security checks needed of real HTTP server. We do not recommend +using this module directly in production. + + One class, :class:`HTTPServer`, is a :class:`socketserver.TCPServer` subclass. It creates and listens at the HTTP socket, dispatching the requests to a handler. Code to create and run the server looks like this::