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r62490 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-24 20:29:10 -0500 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
reformat some documentation of classes so methods and attributes are under the class directive
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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> |
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| date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:59:09 +0000 |
| parents | 9e1529bf0442 |
| children | 662d15af52df |
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--- a/Doc/library/cgihttpserver.rst Thu Apr 24 21:00:04 2008 +0000 +++ b/Doc/library/cgihttpserver.rst Fri Apr 25 01:59:09 2008 +0000 @@ -43,22 +43,22 @@ and serve the output, instead of serving files, if the request leads to somewhere below the ``cgi_directories`` path. -The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following data member: + The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following data member: -.. attribute:: CGIHTTPRequestHandler.cgi_directories + .. attribute:: cgi_directories - This defaults to ``['/cgi-bin', '/htbin']`` and describes directories to treat - as containing CGI scripts. + This defaults to ``['/cgi-bin', '/htbin']`` and describes directories to + treat as containing CGI scripts. -The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following methods: + The :class:`CGIHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following methods: -.. method:: CGIHTTPRequestHandler.do_POST() + .. method:: do_POST() - This method serves the ``'POST'`` request type, only allowed for CGI scripts. - Error 501, "Can only POST to CGI scripts", is output when trying to POST to a - non-CGI url. + This method serves the ``'POST'`` request type, only allowed for CGI + scripts. Error 501, "Can only POST to CGI scripts", is output when trying + to POST to a non-CGI url. Note that CGI scripts will be run with UID of user nobody, for security reasons. Problems with the CGI script will be translated to error 403.
