On 22/05/2019 01.11, Glenn Linderman wrote: > On 5/21/2019 2:00 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:43 AM Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> >> wrote: >>> After maintaining my own version of http.server to fix or workaround some >>> of its deficiencies for some years, I discovered bottle.py. It has far more >>> capability, is far better documented, and is just as quick to deploy. While >>> I haven't yet converted all past projects to use bottle.py, it will likely >>> happen in time, unless something even simpler to use is discovered, >>> although I can hardly imagine that happening. >> bottle.py uses http.server for its local development mode (the one you >> see in their quickstart example at the top of their README). Same with >> flask, django, and probably a bunch of other frameworks. It's *very* >> widely used. >> >> -n >> > The source for bottle.py version 0.13-dev has an import for http.client, but > not http.server. I hadn't tracked down every indirect dependency in the > bottle.py source code, but it seems that if one uses the "default server" for > bottle, that it is "wsgiref", imported from wsgiref.simple_server, and that > in turn does import BaseHTTPRequestHandler and HTTPServer from http.server. > > It is the higher-level code in http.server that has significant deficiencies > that have caused me problems over the years... a "SimpleHTTPRequestHandler" > that is so simple it doesn't do POST, PUT or PASTE, a "CGIHTTPRequestHandler" > that only implements part of the CGI protocol, only CGI support in POST, no > support for PUT or PASTE, and no support for https, and not much bug fix > activity in those areas. > > Maybe http.server should be split into the "basic parts" (used by bottle.py, > and other frameworks), and the "higher-level parts", which could then be > discarded by this PEP! At this point, though, I'd have to agree that the > whole should not be discarded. Thanks for making me dig deeper.
The idea has merrit. However I feel its out of scope for the PEP. The http.server module and socketserver module are still widely used for debug and toy examples. Could you please open a bug to track your proposal? We may pursue it in a couple of years from now. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
