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The patch in its current form seems to be broken. To see the
problem, please run SimpleHTTPServer on some directory, then
access it with a HTTP/1.1 client (e.g. Netscape 4.7).
The server will use the protocol version HTTP/1.0, but the
client will initially send 1.1, and send a Connection:
Keep-alive header. As a result, self.close_connection is set
to 0, despite using HTTP/1.0. In turn, the HTTP server won't
send a content length, and won't close the connection
either. Netscape waits forever from some completion which
never occurs, since the server waits for the next request on
the same connection.
It might be useful to enhance the SimpleHTTPServer test()
function to optionally operate in HTTP/1.1 mode (including
sending a proper ContentLength). Doing the same for the CGI
HTTP server is probably less useful.