[Python-checkins] bpo-34576 warn users on security for http.server (GH-9720)

Wed Oct 10 23:31:33 EDT 2018

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3baee3b39765f5e8ec616b2b71b731b140486394
commit: 3baee3b39765f5e8ec616b2b71b731b140486394
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018年10月10日T20:31:27-07:00
summary:
bpo-34576 warn users on security for http.server (GH-9720)
It was proposed to add an warning for http.server regarding security
issues. The wording was provided at bpo-26005 by @orsenthil
(cherry picked from commit 1d26c72e6a9c5b28b27c158f2f196217707dbb0f)
Co-authored-by: Felipe Rodrigues <felipe at felipevr.com>
files:
M Doc/library/http.server.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index b29020bc7ca5..ab5d568f01aa 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::
