Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I saw the python-ideas post. I have no experience with http.server, but I just read the doc, and know something of our general enhancement policies. I hope these comments help.
There are two questions: Should compression support be added to http.server? If so, how? To me, the purpose of the module is to provide a server and request handlers for toy, experimental, and basic production use, whether on a private or the public net. Whatever the case was when the module was written, compression strikes me as a basic http feature now. I agree with Martin that compression does not fit with the current definition of SimpleHTTPRequestHandler. I suggest instead a subclass thereof. CompressionHTTPRequestHandler? ZippyHTTPRequestHandler? Then add -zip to command line options. If cgi + compression is relevant, a CompressionMixin might be posible, but I notice that there has been no suggestion so far that the combination is needed. I suspect one motivation for adding compression to Simple... is to make it default. I understand the desire to give users something for 'free', but changing default behavior usually breaks something somewhere and is therefore contrary to our general policy, and I definitely would not break it for this. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30576> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
